XPT Early Morning Train

Where   :: Sydney Central
When    :: 7-40am, Sunday 24th August, 2008
Weapon :: Panasonic TZ3

I took a very special person to Sydney Central early on Sunday morning to catch the Daylight XPT {eXpress Passenger Train}  to Wagga Wagga, where she is attending Charles Sturt University.  This is about a 6 hour journey, and the train continues on to Melbourne another 500 kilometres or so.  There are two of these trains a day, a day and a night train, in both directions.

This train set is headed by Locomotive 2009, City of Canberra.

The XPT power car features a Paxman VP185 12-cylinder, turbo-charged
diesel electric engine boasting 1492 kW or 2000 horsepower. There's a
power car at each end of the train, one pulling and the other pushing.  The train includes 2 first class carriages, a cafeteria car and a sleeper and I think 6 economy cars.

Not quite the romance of the steam age, but fun anyway - as long as you don't have to do it very often and you don't have scallies in the carriage and as long as nobody sits next to you.