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Westrail *ducks*
July 9, 2026 at 8:32 PM
drdrehistorian.bsky.social
Good morning from Victoria Park and its Westrail sign (a brand that has now not existed for longer than it did exist, 1975–2000)
Foreground: a battered blue sign that says “Westrail property. Keep out. Trespassers will be prosecuted.” Behind it is a Perth B-series EMU departing Victoria Park station for Cockburn Central in the early morning light, the sun not yet striking the train
May 20, 2026 at 11:59 PM
semaphoresigfur.bsky.social
Went and looked at some trains today! Model trains that is 😄

Westrail A 1511 on the DOWN Eastern Railway main at Swan View Station. AMRA - WA.
May 4, 2025 at 10:07 AM
updatedtuesdays.com
You have no idea how much I want the late-70s Westrail Cafeteria table settings. Shit rules, and it's just old enough to still cater for smokers with the monogrammed ashtray
A branded table setting for Westrail - Consists of a mute orange place mat, a brown side dish, simple modernist stainless-steel cutlery setting (each engraved with the minimalist version Westrail logo on the end of the handle), a brown glass ashtray, an earth-brown coffee and saucer, and a tinted glass tumbler.
February 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
downrail.bsky.social
40 years ago today, on the 22nd of June 1986, the West of Ireland Railway Preservation Society (“Westrail”) operated its first mainline railtour. This was the first time a preserved diesel loco hauled a mainline passenger train anywhere in the UK or Ireland.
A photo of a red diesel train
June 22, 2026 at 8:06 PM
drdrehistorian.bsky.social
A few scenes from Victoria Park railway station in Perth this morning
An A-series electric multiple unit arriving at Victoria Park. The station used to be located on the curve the train is rounding, and was moved to its current location in 2008. This pic is taken from the station footbridge Looking the other way down the line in the direction of Armadale but showing the same train as the previous pic, now pulling up at the station platform. To its left are steps to access the footbridge, Rutland Ave, and the Transperth station sign The train stopped at the platform, seen from halfway down the footbridge steps, with a vehicle pick-up zone at left on Rutlamd Ave The same train stopped at Victoria Park, but this time seen from rail level at the other (southern) end of the station. In the foreground is an old Westrail sign saying “Westrail property. Keep out. Trespassers will be prosecuted.” Westrail has not existed for over 20 years!
November 22, 2024 at 5:42 AM
jacktatttran.bsky.social
In Western Australia, the Liberal state government commissioned a Greater Perth transport study in the late 1970s recommending investment in highways and busways. The government listened to the “experts” and closed the Fremantle Line in 1979, promptly lost to Labor in 1983 and the line reopened.
ADL/ADC class DMUs introduced by WestRail in the early 1980s to increase capacity and replace older sets on Perth commuter operations. With electrification of the Perth rail network, the DMUs were sold to Auckland. The electrification of the Auckland Rail network led to the retirement of this class after 2011. ADK/ADB DMUs built for Westrail (then Western Australia Government Railways) in the 1960s for Perth commuter operations. In 1993, electrification made them redundant and they were sold to Auckland.
May 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
aussiewirraway.bsky.social
Good Westrail heritage RE: track quality
November 14, 2024 at 6:37 AM
updatedtuesdays.com
It's funny seeing extremely accurate reproductions of the WAGR "mucky duck" and also Westrail logo for Graffiti groups in the area. Like, whoever's doing them HAS to be a regional foamer
September 17, 2026 at 8:43 AM
updatedtuesdays.com
Last in thread- some of the Sn3.5 scale "Swan View" layout
In an extremely anachronistic display - A1511 in Westrail Orange (with a freight yellow consist) hauls a "Down" pickup freight through Swan View. Westrail corporate branding was introduced in 1975/76, and the Eastern Railway (and thus Swan View) was closed in 1966 Two ex-MRWA F-class diesels made by English-Electric Rocklea haul a rake of MRWA coaches. X 1026 "Mangala" hauling an empty "down" grain consist towards Swan View ADF "Wildflower" railmotor hauls it's paired trailers "up" through Swan View tunnel downhill towards Midland
May 5, 2025 at 5:03 AM
tailtetours.bsky.social
This video from Eirvid Productions captures the atmosphere of that historic day.

youtu.be/DXJmKAzMVNk?...

#Tuam #Galway
Westrail : 22 June 1986 - Inaugural Trip
YouTube video by Eirvid Productions
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June 22, 2026 at 8:04 PM
tailtetours.bsky.social
Today, 22nd June, marks an important date in the annals of Irish railway preservation & railtours. It was on this date 1986, that Westrail operated the first mainline special to use a preserved diesel locomotive, long before such an operation took place anywhere else in Ireland or, indeed, Britain.
June 22, 2026 at 8:02 PM
railmaps.com.au
Today's historic pic: Westrail diesel loco Y1102 sits at Pemberton, WA, January 9, 2015. Eighteen 12-cylinder Paxman-engined Y class, built by British Thomson-Houston and Clayton Equipment Co in the UK 1953-55, were the WAGR's first mainline diesels. The last Y class units were withdrawn in 1990.
A derelict predominantly orange-liveried hood unit diesel locomotive sits attached to other disused rollingstock on an overgrown set of narrow gauge tracks in a forested rural location.
September 23, 2024 at 3:10 AM
midmantle.bsky.social
The Westrail network was privatised for 50 years for $585 million in 2000. This year, the rail network's owner earned a $132 million dividend from it. This privatisation was ridiculously irresponsible.

www.afr.com/companies/in...
Brookfield scoops up $132m from WA rail networks
The Canadian infrastructure group is reaping healthy dividends from its West Australian freight rail business. But the state government wants to buy it back.
www.afr.com
July 3, 2025 at 11:37 AM
dailynorthern.com
West Rail agreement could be delayed beyond next election #Finland #railtransport #WestRail
West Rail agreement could be delayed beyond next election
The signing of the West Rail project’s shareholder agreement could be pushed beyond Finland’s next parliamentary elections, Yle reports, as appeals against municipal decisions delay the process. West Rail’s shareholders are the state and the municipalities of Espoo, Turku, Lohja, Salo and Vihti. …
www.dailynorthern.com
October 2, 2026 at 2:45 PM
updatedtuesdays.com
Wombat Flats (HO Scale) - Australian country-themed layout of no particular geographic tie. The thing I love about it is the long run across the front, lets things really put the scale hammer down.
WAGR/Westrail L class hauling a mixed standard gauge freight lond-end first (as was relatively common practice until the late 80s with Westrail) 3801 with a rake of NSWGR coach stock on a probable heritage expedition Good country vibes from this corner of the layout,with this fictional highway and it's fictional distance board and unprotected level crossing. From the same corner but a bit later, the L passes through again
June 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
updatedtuesdays.com
Went to the rail transport museum, picked up a couple of vintage Westrail postcards to go on my wall
two postcards,image side- left one is a picture of a green steam locomotive with lit headlight and a headboard that says "Australind". The right postcard is of a orange diesel locomotive hauling a train of yellow open hoppers loaded with coal. The backs of two postcards, yet to be used. Of worthy note to the blank postcard template is the Westrail logo top center on both cards.
November 17, 2024 at 2:09 PM
updatedtuesdays.com
SHIT, TRAIN [hurried unpacking camera to catch some not-worth-showing stills then this video of the consist]

Grain train made entirely of the new wagons built by CRRC for CBH. At the head was, usurprisingly, a CBH loco and IIRC an ex-Westrail P class.

Anyway, that's some stuff
/threa
June 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
downrail.bsky.social
This #FlashbackFriday photo comes through the kind courtesy of Bill Haggan. Albert Sage, our former Infrastructure Manager, is seen pictured next to Deutz diesel G613 in 1991. The loco had recently arrived from our friends in Westrail Tuam.
April 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
downrail.bsky.social
Despite limited funds and manpower, Westrail was a truly groundbreaking organisation. In addition to operating railtours, the group preserved G class G613, which is currently at Downpatrick, and restored our own steam loco No. 90 from scrap condition back to mainline running.
June 22, 2026 at 8:08 PM
updatedtuesdays.com
Hey, we're all still good for a little extra Christmas Goodness, yes? Sure.
Let's go back to 1988 and watch one of Westrail's Internal staff news bulletin videos for the Christmas period.

youtu.be/B4Efk8I4pAk

(also to those that watch my model rail YT channel - yes this is where the intro's from)
Westrail News 07 - Christmas Edition December 1988 (WAGR)
YouTube video by Railway Archives
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January 5, 2026 at 6:53 AM
downrail.bsky.social
With loco E428 and two of the carriages sporting the striking Westrail livery, we’re sure that a noisy red freight loco pulling a passenger train turned a few heads across the Connacht countryside.

Photos: Westrail Archive/Barry Carse
June 22, 2026 at 8:07 PM
allosaurfan.bsky.social
Ideas for Aussie heritage units:

Pacific National: NSWGR, VR, PTC, V/Line, SRA, FR/FC, NRC and FV/FA

Aurizon: SAR, CR, ANR, QR/QRN, WAGR/Westrail, Interail, ASR/GWA/ORA and AWR/ARG

Any suggestions?
The GE C44ACi fleets of both operators are likely choices.
May 30, 2026 at 5:57 AM
updatedtuesdays.com
Wondering whether I should get real pedantic about my track: replace 1 in 4 of them with 3D Printed Ties/sleepers that look like metal ones, which was basically the standard replacement practise for Westrail in the 80s and 90s on everything but the Standard/Dual Gauge corridor (those got concrete)
February 11, 2026 at 4:23 AM
railmaps.com.au
Today's historic pic: Exactly 40 years ago today, Westrail diesel loco L253, on loan to VLine, prepares to depart for Melbourne at the head of a standard gauge goods train at Albury, NSW, January 7 1984. Some of the 27 L class units, L253 included, remain in service today with Aurizon and SSR.
In a photograph taken from a passenger platform at a railway station, a hood-style diesel locomotive in predominantly orange livery with blue and white lining, sits at the head of a goods train on the second track out from the platform.
January 7, 2024 at 2:22 AM