RailZone Australia

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Skip to our mission and purpose, find out about making a donation, or read on... In the year 1987 I commenced employment with what was then known as the State Rail Authority. In 1990 I transferred to the train crewing area with the freight operation of State Rail which was then semi-corporatised as FreightRail... I've always had a passing interest in trains's mostly because of influences earlier in life and because of my fascination with all things mechanical and the interesting technologies that go along 'for the ride'! Since 1993 I'd had some rudimentary websites in place based on my various interests. My original railway website was actually part of a dial-up railway bulletin-board system (aka BBS) called Possum Power Tank BBS, and when full-time Internet connections became affordable in the early 1990's my original railway website was set up. This website, when first created, was part of that site until 2004 when I created what is now the seperate entity known as RailZone Australia (originally it was just called The RailZone). It became clear to me that with the Internet 'maturing', there was a need for an unbiased, public-access railway-focused site in Australia. The only other sites existing at the time were RailPage (which is anything but unbiased or totally public-access any more!) and several others like Tony Bailey's excellent RailMedia site (which is still excellent and a credit to Tony's dedication). To see where I've tried to position RailZone Australia in amongst the growing online rail-transport enthusiast presence, please read our mission and purpose to find out about our aims and goals for this website. There are a number of different types of discussion forums available which you are most welcome to join! These include the free web-based online forums, the Australian Rail Safety mailing list, and the Australian prototype railway modelling webring. All these facilities are provided so you can share your stories, experiences, technical skills and knowledge, etc. with other railway enthusiasts and railway modellers! An aspect which is sure to appeal to you (even if you're not currently a railway enthusiast or railway modeller), is the image galleries (also reachable here). Feel free to register as a gallery member and upload images for inclusion in your galleries if you have railway-related material to share! This website is reachable using a few different site names. They are: www.railzone.org - forums.railzone.org - galleries.railzone.org

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