The web site of a diehard gunzel, interested anything which uses steel wheels on steel rails.

This site last updated 19 Feb 2008. See What's New for details.

Serious publications

• NEW: Taking the Myki out of Smart Card detractors - outlining the advantages of the new ticketing system
• Dandenong Timetable - the sort of timetable that COULD be run if we had three tracks to Dandenong
• Higinbotham & Associates - specifications for a railway simulation game that will kill the rest stone dead for reality
• "All Aboard" - Railways in Australia
• "Only Ten Percent Iron" - Sir Harold Winthrop Clapp
• Why rail is best
• A very few good railway books
• In Praise of Privatisation - a set of reasons why, contrary to popular belief, privatisation is not the very worst thing that has happened to railways
• (It's Time To) Move Over, PTUA! - a Critique of the PTUA's book "It's Time to Move"
• NEW: Transport and Liveability - Again - a critique of MelbourneOnTrack's Transport and Liveability statement
• The Inventions of the Mad Genius - a collection of things which haven't been invented yet, for some reason I'd like to know
• Quotable Quotes - snippets I've said which I believe are worth reading.
• Railways in the Waverley area (External link to Waverley Historical Society web site; but I wrote that page too)

• Trains and Brains - pseudo-scientific study into a relation between interest in railways and IQ
• Cryptic Station Names - cryptic clues to railway station names
• Gone Gunzelling - a "How-to" manual for my favourite form of entertainment
• Russell Street PT - Rules for a game to be played on the Melbourne tram system
• Quiz - how diehard a train nut are you?
• Join the Anti-Road League! - Do you love trains to the exclusion of all else?
• Impatience - a Road-vs-Rail theme send-up of Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience
• Railway humour - There are many good books of railway humour, but I have tried to collect some stories without duplicating them
• Goon Show Imitations (external link) - several of mine on there, with a railway theme

• Pov-Ray Trains
• RoA CheckCode eXchanger - corrects mis-read wagon roadnumbers by using the RoA Check Letter

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