Colin Kay's photos

[Trainiac]

Colin Kay made a point of photographing the Hobart suburban stations at the time the suburban services were due to end. He brought these photos to the station for me to scan and share. They were taken on an Instamatic camera and the film was heat affected, but very much worth seeing

Hobart station forecourt

Hobart platforms

piece of tram rail at Botanical Gardens

Botanical Gardens

[Trainiac]

up platform shelter, Cornelian Bay

down platform shelter, Cornelian Bay

Newtown

Newtown

Moonah

[Trainiac]

Down platform shelter, Sunderland St

Up platform shelter, Sunderland St

Lutana. The shelter was being demolished

Derwent Park

Glenorchy

Montrose Up platform

Montrose Down platform

Rosetta

Berriedale Up platform

Berriedale Down platform

[Damoaj]

A lot of the main line seems fairly sparsely ballasted. Especially the Cornelian Bay down platform shelter.

These days if you look at any recently ballasted track, they tend to completely bury the sleepers to the point it looks like two lengths of rail sitting on raised bluestone.

I guess being able to visually inspect your sleepers isn't considered important these days

[Trainiac]

Chigwell Up platform

Looking north from a just north of Chigwell station

looking south toward Chigwell with an Up railcar service

Claremont

Hilton Rd shelter

Austins Ferry

Granton

Bridgewater

Brighton, the limit of the Hobart Suburban

[Trainiac]

A lot of the main line seems fairly sparsely ballasted. Especially the Cornelian Bay down platform shelter.

These days if you look at any recently ballasted track, they tend to completely bury the sleepers to the point it looks like two lengths of rail sitting on raised bluestone.

I guess being able to visually inspect your sleepers isn't considered important these days

The rail now is to a much higher standard than it was then, looking at these pics. But, its "not high enough standard" to run heritage trains on. Heritage trains had no problems back then though, even at 70kph!

[Peter]

These photos would be great displayed on plaques on the inter-city bike track. With only the platforms now remaining, you can't picture the old station buildings.

Do you known when Colin took them?

[Trainiac]

These photos would be great displayed on plaques on the inter-city bike track. With only the platforms now remaining, you can't picture the old station buildings.

Do you known when Colin took them?

Not a bad idea! Put it the the city councils. He took them about the time services were due to end. 1974 but which month?

[Trainiac]

Some photos of a ballast train derailment at Granton, late 70's or early 80's

[Trainiac]

[Raydio]

Peter, Trainiac
Not a bad idea, but if so displayed, the pix would have to be in a very vandalproof form.
I remember what happened to a poster containing a timetable of suburban train running which I attached to the fence next to the bike track at Derwent Park.
Came back the next day to find it destroyed. Presumably the biking fraternity don't like reminders of what used to be on the site of that horrid concrete path.

I would suggest the pix would have been taken in December, judging by the long, dry grass in some of them and the fact that suburban trains ceased at the end of December 74 - disregarding the pathetic, half-arsed "effort" to run suburbans for a very short time after the Tasman Bridge went down in Jan 75.

[Trainiac]

Colin has a flyer for the EBR's West Coaster service in his collection

[The_inspector]

Half arsed and TGR, go together, most things they did they seemed to loose interest in half way through the good idea. Loco maintenance, track maintenance, freight forwarding etc. Even log transport got to hard for them even back in the seventies, their incompetance kept me fed, put through school and housed so I probably shouldn't complain too much.

Matt