You could pick the die-hard railway buffs by their cameras, positioning in the landscape and expectant gazes as they stared down the track alongside Castlemaine railway station last Saturday morning.
They were there for the Victorian Colonial Express, a very vintage K class steam loco hauling Victoria’s oldest railway carriages.
Victorian Goldfields Railway is running the vintage steam train between Castlemaine and Maldon for the next few Saturday’s this month to coincide with the National Trust Heritage Festival, the VGR’s Jonathan Newton says. Get the full story in today’s Castlemaine Mail.