Getting to Port Adelaide
Port Adelaide is approximately 15kms from Adelaide city centre.
Unless you are driving yourself – bus or train services are convenient and recommended. Bus and train services are run by Adelaide Metro. For fares etc please refer to my ‘Bus, Tram, Train – Tickets and Routes’ review. For maps and timetables http://www.adelaidemetro.com.au/Timetables-Maps. Continue reading “Getting to and around Port Adelaide”
If you have any interest whatsoever in trains a visit to the National Railway Museum (separate review) in Port Adelaide is an absolute must do. In addition to operating a 457mm gauge railway through the grounds of the museum, the museum also operates this 457mm gauge railway, here in Semaphore. Continue reading “All Aboard……Bill Is Ready To Go..”
In my review of our trip from Myrdal to Flåm aboard the Flåm Railway (Flåmsbana) I indicated that the line, the steepest in Europe, opened in 1940 and was an extraordinary piece of engineering.
Those interested in learning more about this railway and its history and, importantly, the people who built it – both engineers and work gangs – should visit the Railway Museum right in the centre of Flåm. Continue reading “Railway Museum”
My love for trains does not extend to ‘petit’ trains like this.
That said, they are everywhere nowadays and provide a useful option for getting around if you are incapacitated, with kids or just feel like being lazy, and who doesn’t from time to time? Unless one or more of these afflictions apply, Flåm is extremely easy to get around on foot. Continue reading “Petit Train Ride”
The Flåm Railway, or Flåmsbana in Norwegian, opened in 1940. From an engineering perspective this railway is an amazing feat. Europe’s steepest railway, it rises, and indeed falls, 864 metres in a distance of only 20.2 kms – with gradients of 1 in 18 (5.5%) along 80% of the distance. This is quite something for a standard gauge track with not a cog in sight – or indeed in existence. Continue reading “Flåm Railway – Flåmsbana”
Myrdal Station, as there is little else at Myrdal, is the junction stop on the Oslo – Bergen train line which connects with the famous Flåm Railway (Flåmsbana).
98% of people arriving into Myrdal will be transferring onto the Flåm Railway, leaving the Flåm Railway to continue their journey on the Bergen Line or immediately returning to Flåm on the Flåmsbana having just arrived from there. 1% of people will be transferring to a bicycle (available for hire here) to ride down the valley to Flåm. Of the remaining 1%, a few hardy souls will stop here for hiking, a few will actually work here at the guesthouse (yes, there are a couple of accommodation options should you want to stay) or the railway and its related businesses and the remaining few will have alighted in error! Continue reading “Seven Minutes in Myrdal – Changing Trains”
In one word – Stunning.
Now the longer version. Continue reading “Oslo to Myrdal to Bergen by Train”
Flåm is a small village of less than 500 people, tucked away, and indeed hemmed in on three sides by mountains, at the head of the Aurlandsfjord, which, itself, is tucked away deep in the Sognefjord, Norway. Continue reading “Flåm – tastic Flåm”
Outer Harbor Station, on the northern tip of the Lefevre Peninsula on the Gulf St Vincent, is the terminus of the Outer Harbor Line which starts in the city at Adelaide Railway Station. Continue reading “Outer Harbor Station And Its Artwork”
Despite a revamp and the addition of two mini golf courses Yarralumla Play Station continues to exude the rather run-down, or dare I say it country/outback town fun park, feel that it has had for years. I hasten to add that this is a complement! Continue reading “Yarralumla Play Station”
The Rambling Wombat 