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Vintage Tramway Festival 2026 – Pictorial

27/2/2026

On Sunday my father and I rode on the heritage train service operated by NSW ‘S’ set S28 from North Sydney Station, crossing Sydney Harbour Bridge, to Loftus for the annual Vintage Tramway Festival at the Sydney Tramway Museum. The heritage service was organised by Transport Heritage NSW for ticketed passengers only. Below are a few of the photographs that I took on our day out to ride both light and heavy rails 😉

Last minute briefing on North Sydney's Platform 3 amongst Transport Heritage staff and volunteers before allowing passengers to board Set S28 for the journey to Loftus.
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‘O’ Class “toastrack” no. 805 displaying a destination sign for Manly while awaiting clearing to proceed down the line.
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Sitting the midday sun was AEC Regal IV - 3197, on display from the Sydney Bus Museum.
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Also in attendance was a Channel 7 news crew who had come down to make a report on the Vintage Tramway Festival for that Sunday's 6:00pm news bulletin. Captured here as the cameraman waits for an out-of-shot tram set to pass by.
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Opened at the Festival was the Tramway Museum's new souvenir and kiosk space housed behind the preserved the YMCA façade. Hidden inside was the mock-up of the Parramatta Light Rail Vehicle.
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A view inside of the Parramatta Light Rail Vehicle mock-up on display inside the Tramway Museum's new souvenir and kiosk space.
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Vincent Cavanagh
27 February 2026

A Black Sheep and a Broken Drought

18/2/2026

It’s not actually been a year, but it has certainly felt like it since I had made a new artwork. The drought broke on February 14th when I received a request from fellow creative and poet Alexandra Pierotti to draw my own version of a Christian meme that can often be found circulating on social media sites in one form or another for a personal project of her own. She has kindly given me permission to share this with you, for which I am truly grateful 🙏

First attempt. Too much detail.
~ Vincent Cavanagh © 2026

I had three false starts, which would begin okay and then, after a point, I’d go and add too much detail that pushed it beyond legibility. All before my brain had time to react to what I was doing. Recalling a previous (unpublished) “doodle”, something finally clicked for me. What I needed to do was cartoon, not illustrate like it was going to be a submission to a scientific journal or something.

After finishing inking the linework and scanning the page into the computer, next came adding the colour. I had a rough idea in mind, before I started, for what most of the colours should be, but the background and Jesus’ tunic were harder pin down. Nothing I tried quite meshed properly, throwing the colour harmony out of balance, and restricting the perceived options I had for the colour of Jesus’ tunic.

Then as I was halfway through testing a yellow background for the right half of the picture, before removing the yellow from the left side, there was the answer I’d been fumbling about for over the past hour or more. I put it down solely to divine prompting. And after that thankful event the rest of the artistic jigsaw fell into place.

You can find Alexandra Pierotti’s poetry on her blog at Poetry For Wellmindedness. Her latest works of poetry can be found on Facebook.

Vincent Cavanagh
18 February 2026

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