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Guest Photographer - Glenn Ryan

   
 

Glenn Ryan has been a keen railway photographer for many years and has made a concerted effort to capture single deck electric train operations in their final years. He has contributed material to Under The Wires, Railway Digest and other publications. Glenn previously worked for Freightcorp as an electrical fitter in a depot in country New South Wales. He has since gone on to co-author a number of books on Sydney's single-deck red-sets.

This was the second SETS web-site Guest Photographer feature of the new millenium, dating from July 2001. With narrow single-deck suburban trains back in Sydney, for historical interest we again present Glenn's selection of wide-body single-deck images taken from his vast photographic collection.

Having grown up around the Epping area I was fortunate to experience daily, the main northern line rail scene in the 1980s. Easily impressed as an adolescent by the sight of single deck sets groaning upgrade from Eastwood and of course by the sounds of Alco diesel electric locomotives dragging their loads northbound. The working week is nearly over for the commuters as C3255 and T4405 trail set H9 on the afternoon of Friday 15 December, 1989 at an unrefurbished Epping station.
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