Coogee to Orange

Well things are really winding up now. We stuffed ourselves for breakfast, then re-packed our bags so we had only what we needed for on the train.

Eventually found the motorail checkin, and dropped off the car, then went for a bit of a walk down George St. Ate more pastries as it was lunch time, from a very nice boulangerie.

Wandered around the QVB for a half an hour, looking at all the stuff we can't afford. Karen splashed out on some perfume - well, splashed it.

This is looking up into the dome of the QVB.

Some of the stained glass windows in the QVB.

Caught a train from Town Hall back to Central. Figured we wouldn't get good coffee on the train, so grabbed another one from the station cafe, where there was this charming artwork. This is just one of several panels showing the hostory of the area, era by era.

Here's a picture of our train! Bet it's not what you were expecting.

We then tried to find our carriage. It (and 9 others) had been taken away to be attached at the front of the back half of the train since it does not all fit on the platform at once. It's 25 carriages, plus 2 engines, is over 711m long and in total weighs about 1500 tonnes

Found a door onto the train and wove our way to our carriage, and then to our cabin. Very comfy spot. The crew all dropped by and individually introduced themselves.We left Sydney bang on time. It's almost impossible to take good photos from the train, so we just sat back and enjoyed to trip throug the blue mountains.

After a couple of hours we made our way to the club car where Garey the service manager led us through what will happen over the next day.

This was followed with a delicious dinner in the Queen Adelaide Restaurant car; Karen had kangaroo, I had pork.

We sat in the club car for a little while, and we had a cappachino which was better than expected.

We've retired to our cabin now, and found it all set up for sleeping.

We are looking forward to being rocked to sleep.