Minor changes to the menus for freight rolling stock.
Added more rail lines to the routes section
June 2023
Minor updates to fix a few issues.
May 2023
Added South Australian Railways General Appendix to the Rule Book and Working Time Tables and Other Instructions - 1st July 1973,
Names of South Australian Railways Stations with their meansing and derivations - Alfred N. Day. Secretary of Railways - 1915,
South Australian Railways Station Names - Derivation and Meaning of Name to the Library Page downloads.
June 2022
Minor updates.
Added more route information for lines. Now includes basic info for Roseworthy to Peterborough.
Feb 2022
Fixed some minor problems.
August 2021
Added over 400 plans to the site that cover various bits of rolling stock. This has been a frequently request feature that I have been working on for a long time that finaly got partially implemented during covid lockdown. I still have a lot of work to do scanning plans, and tracking down better originals than some of the ones I have. The plans are on both the HTML pages and the downloadable PDF versions of the site.
Created "Master List of Plans" and added it to the pull down menus.
Fix a problem with the photo index putting entries on the wrong pages.
Minor changes and updates to various pages.
Implemented a work around for a bug in a standard Latex macro that was stopping the PDF version of the site from compiling correctly.
October 2020
Changed the code associated with displaying Google ads. I'm hopeful this might fix a few of the strange things Google does trying to display ads (i.e. multiple ads in a row, ads moving the menu down or occuring in really wierd places etc.), but I expect it will still do crazy things as I've been trying to fix work out why it does what it does for years.
Augusta 2020
Added photos from Grant McDougall of redhen railcar 402 and 311.
April 2019
Added photos from George Coop of his trip on The Ghan in 1954.
October 2019
Added information about the "Journey Beyond Rail Experience" car rebuilds.
Changed the SAR railcar menu to include a link to the 820 and 860 class cars.
Feb 2019
Fixed some minor problems.
Jan 2018
Updated from Bootstrap 3.3.4 to 3.3.7
Started adding more photos from the Murray Billett Collection - it will take a while as I have about 2000 to go through
Fixed a problem with wrong captions for photos in the Commonwealth Railways photos collection.
April 2017
Major changes to the structure of the printable version of the web site. The TIMS PDF have all been renumbered and Volume 8 split into 4 volumes. Formatting changes have also been made to some volumes, and the coveres changed to better identify visually the different volumes. The volume numbers are
Volume 1
Overview and Articles Information
Volume 2
Carriage Information
Volume 3
Freight Rollingstock Information
Volume 4
Locomotive and Railcar Information
Volume 5
War Time History of the Commonwealth Railways
Volume 6
Route Information
Volume 7
Master Rollingstock List
TIMS1
Australian National Traffic Information Management System (TIMS) - Rollingstock Lists - this is a listing of all the rollingstock whose detailed records can be found in TIMS3 to TIMS6
TIMS2
Australian National Traffic Information Management System (TIMS) - Route Index - basically a listing of all the track speed restrictions and temporary works
TIMS3
Australian National Traffic Information Management System (TIMS) - Locomotive Rollingstock Records - this is the full detailed entry of all the locomotive rollingstock.
TIMS4
Australian National Traffic Information Management System (TIMS) - Railcar Rollingstock Records - this is the full detailed entry of all the railcar rollingstock.
TIMS5
Australian National Traffic Information Management System (TIMS) - Passenger Rollingstock Records - this is the full detailed entry of all the passenger rollingstock.
TIMS6
Australian National Traffic Information Management System (TIMS) - Wagon Rollingstock Records - this is the full detailed entry of all the freight wagon rollingstock.
Minor changes to correct errors and add info.
June 2016
Added more route information for lines. Now includes basic info for Murray Mallee and Soouth East lines.
October 2015
Minor updates to text.
Changed default contact email to Gmail address
Added a Computer Code page to the Libraray that contains information about How I add EXIF Information to Photos, using EXIFTOOL, so they can be
searched on in Widows.
Reworked Site Part 2 - All the TIMS information reworked into the new look - that makes just over 11,000 pages done in total.
Reworked Site Part 1 - Major rework of the look and feel of the site. It should now be far move responsive to different sized display. Also simplied the display so that it is more consistent across the site.
May 2015
Major rework of the look and feel of the web site. Chagnes to menus and better support for smaller screen devices.
Moved the index menu to the start page - this means you get the menu as the default when you start the site.
Changed the default format for pictures to be slightly larger (now 1000x800) and the thumbnail list in the pcitures by author is 5 columns wide. I made this change because screens are now a lot larger and a different default shape than when I originally designed the site (no longer normally 4:3 ratio).
Added some more recent pictures I have taken of rolling stock.
January 2014
Updated some information about current location of some vehicles.