Bush Week on Victoria Street

 

Bush week (1) n,[Aust slang],an agricultural show held in the city. (2)n [Aust informal] An imagined or symbolic time when assumedly unsophisticated people from the bush come to the city, likely to be preyed on by tricksters there.

I finally got around to fitting decoders into my homage of the former SECV (State Electricity Commission Victoria) tramways that operated in regional Victoria in Ballarat, Bendigo and Geelong.

These regional tramways literally ran on the smell of an oily rag, their rollingstock were made up of the cast offs from Melbourne and Adelaide and some still to this day, cut a notch at their respective tramway museums.

Bendigo Birney 29 and Ballarat 28 return from the

racecourse on an enthusiasts trip.

 

These models are still undergoing final adjustment to speed tables, kick rates and strengths before the real fun of fitting lights begins. (so far, so good no magic smoke has escaped yet!)

 

Ballarat 28 (a reworked Tyco/Mantua)

 

Holding up services at the racecourse.

 

Country cousins running amok in the city.

 

 

From under the wires in a darker shade of green,

Glenn