What is an IRA 1863?

Well, I awoke from a day-off nanna nap to read Don-from-Bullaburra's email that a train run by Indepdent Railways of Australia -- IRA -- was through Bullaburra about 3:15pm. It was 4:05pm when I read this and that's about the running time to Lithgow. 

So I gathered up Zoe and the dog and we were getting into the car as I heard it... a quick visual check confirmed our train.

We raced--well, at legal speeds--to Wang and took a snap. Zoe fell asleep just at the Mudgee Rd turnoff.

We then 'raced' to Tarana... although the Wang-Rydal road saw us stuck behind a 45kmh granny ute.

IRA 1863:
Lithgow:  16:12
Wallerawang: 16:27
Tarana: 16:55

A friendly crew to my daughter's delight too!

Train chasing is a lit like fishing... news that the fish are running goes out, and you go and take your chances.

Received this email on Sunday night:

Hey all!

Today was a special day for me. I went to the dentist. It wasn't the first time I went to the dentist in a technical sense... ever since I was a tiny bubba I have been going to the dentist with mummy and daddy and I've sat in the dentist's room while she looked in their mouths. But today was the first time I actually sat in the dentist's chair.

An early start

Hi, it's Glenn here.

Michelle tells me she doesn't want to blog, so you'll just have to watch our news section and my own blog to stay up to date!

Glenn.