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Publisher of rail maps & public transport timetables. Photographer, public transport advocate and enjoyer of irony and life’s little incongruities. Ethics matter more than politics.

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Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · Jun 17

You know he’s an idiot, I know he’s an idiot, we all know he’s an idiot

We all know everyone knows we all know he’s an idiot. And you all know exactly who I’m talking about.

It’s time to break the kayfabe
Surely, regardless of our politics, we can all agree it’s not good to have an idiot in power

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Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 3h

That would seem to be uncomfortably close to meeting the definition of a civil war.

Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 4h

This little fella is off to see the world.

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Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 5h

The evidence from this photo suggests that Henty is south of the Barassi line; the great cultural faultline that cleaves Australia in two.

Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 5h

This one's not really a rail photo, but I snapped it immediately prior to the image above. I suspect some of the lads on that train tour out to Rand that day ducked into the Doodle Cooma Arms whilst the Alco was running around its train, but I stayed outside taking photos of the oncoming storm.

A two storey brick hotel building on a corner block in a country town with a fierce storm brewing in the sky behind it.

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Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 5h

Today's historic pic: The bright candy livery on Alco diesel 4875 stands out on a very dark afternoon against a backdrop of ferocious storm clouds at Henty, NSW, January 29, 1984. Henty, 580km from Sydney on the main South line, was the junction for the Rand branch, from which 4875 had just returned

A predominantly bright red liveried hood style branchline Alco diesel locomotive runs light engine from to left to right across the scene in a rural town in front of a backdrop of very dark storm clouds that fill the sky.

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Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 6h

Yeah.
No it's not.

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Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 8h

Was his name Ofour?

Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 9h

Take a minute to absorb how juvenile this whole situation is.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 23h

First casting convo with the company doing the ABC series about Robodebt. It’s weird to chat about how a casting call for someone to play yourself will be shaped

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Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 1d

I'm not saying don't do a soft intro. Definitely do that. But the way they have designed this one is absolutely higher risk. In three main ways.

Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 1d

Today's historic pic: Broad gauge Diesel-Electric Rail Motor 63RM towing carriage 43BPL on a Mulyarra-bound special day tour calls at Baddaginnie, Vic, March 14 1987. Baddaginnie station, 183km from Melbourne on the former broad gauge line to Albury, closed to passengers in 1978.

A broad gauge diesel-electric railmotor in VR blue and gold livery hauling a red-liveried wooden-bodied BPL passenger carriage stands on a mainline in a provincial location at the site of a closed and removed railway station. The cleared site of the former platform and station building is in the lower foreground. A second track is just visible in the background, slewed away from the nearer track to pass behind the former broad gauge crossing loop.

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Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 1d

But more seriously, is there such poverty that these fairly basic bags are the only ones these people have? Are they so disengaged that they don't care? Or are they genuine Lib supporters hauling around these faded and tatty bags in a sad attempt to cling to the liberal party they once knew?

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Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 1d

On one hand, it failed as an electoral tactic. On the other hand, those things have stickability as a way of keeping the brand visible long term - even if many of them are looking very faded and worn now. (And so are the bags).

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Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 1d

At the 2022 Federal Election, the local Liberal MP handed out free Liberal blue tote bags to the local pensioners. That candidate lost the election and has not been heard of since. But the number of locals still to this day hauling stuff around the local shopping centres in those bags is amazing.

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Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 1d

That's why it's 110% probability.

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Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 1d

The modern day break of gauge is less about the distance between the rails than it is about the distance between the administrators.

Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 1d

If one is not included in the station as built, there is a 110% probability that a new platform 0 will be added afterwards at additional cost.

Just do it now.

www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

It’s a $4 billion rail ‘superhub’. But these passengers will watch it pass from the train window

The Sunshine station decision has left commuters from the north-east without easy access to the Metro Tunnel and future airport rail link.

www.theage.com.au

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Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 1d

Apart from the fact that is not a round table in either the physical or figurative sense, who exactly was antifa opposing in Weimar Germany?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 1d

I guess we need to learn about the capabilities and limitations of AI. Like it or not, it's here. But the important bit isn't the tech, it's the psychology. Why are some dazzled by it? Why do some hand over their own responsibilities to it? Why do some reflexively reject? Who is driving it and why?

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Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 1d

The Australian Catholic University uses AI to detect whether students are using AI to cheat on assignments, then requires students to prove their innocence.

The problem isn't AI, it's unethical fools who think AI is any sort of authority on anything.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

University caught out using AI to wrongly accuse students of cheating with AI

An Australian university has accused thousands of its students of cheating with artificial intelligence. The problem? Many have done nothing wrong.

www.abc.net.au

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Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 2d

That drove the date, but not the choice of how the soft opening runs, and that's the main problem. It's a very conservative choice. Either they were over-conservative and are unnecessarily wearing the costs and reputation hits, OR, the decision is appropriate for a technical reason we don't know.

Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 2d

Thank you!

Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 2d

As of this afternoon, the real time functionality for VLine trains is now working on railmaps.com.au for all VLine train timetables.

Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 2d

And it is unnecessary. A better, low risk, more impressive soft opening would have been to just divert the 6 current off peak trains per hour from the East Pak/Cranbourne lines into the Tunnel. It would have given 10 minute intervals from day 1 and avoided the risks of inter-working they'll now cop.

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Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 2d

Today's historic pic: 36 years ago today, carriages stabled on a trainless Sunday at Auckland, NZ, October 8 1989.
Suburban trains now bypass this station to and from Britomart, but the few long distance trains now depart from Strand station roughly on this site.
Can anyone identify these carriages?

Taken from the edge of a railway yard in a downtown location, rakes of green and white liveried narrow gauge passenger carriages sit stabled. Downtown office and industrial buildings are in the background.

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