'Retired Morris Truck' art

by Shirley Sutton, set in Takaka.

1972 Alfa Romeo Giulia Super 1.6

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De Havilland DHC-6-300 Twin Otter

Of Mt Cook Airlines.  For lots of details, see the book The Aircraft of Air New Zealand and affiliates since 1940.

1939 Triumph Dolomite convertible

 

Russian fire train car

Possibly based on a World War II-era Studebaker truck chassis.

'I'm shopping for real printed transport books as Christmas presents'

Albert Park, Melborne, F1 Grand Prix poster

This is a 5,3 km circuit first opened in 1953, closed in 1958, repoened in 1996, closed again in 2019 and reopened again in 2022.

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Hercules K125 BW motorbike

This 123 cc German-made, air-cooled two-stroke motorcycle known for its military-inspired styling and rugged, no-frills design. Produced from the mid-1970s to the 1990s, it was a middleweight motorcycle in the German Bundeswehr (army) and is admired for its simple, analog mechanics.

a railway between Israel and the United Arab Emirates?

The map shows it going through Jordan and Saudi Arabia

A long-envisioned railway link between Israel and the United Arab Emirates is moving toward practical realization, following a visit by an Israeli delegation led by Israeli Minister of Transport, Miri Regev, to Abu Dhabi. The project has advanced quietly since the 2020 normalization agreements (the Abraham Accords), when the UAE expanded its Etihad Rail network westward to the Saudi border at Al Ghuwaifat. That line, operational since 2023, runs from the port of Al Fujairah to the frontier, where the tracks currently end.

The missing element is Saudi Arabia. While the Emirati section is fully built, the Saudis have not yet begun construction to connect their network toward Jordan and Israel. Both Israel and the UAE already operate modern rail systems, so the core focus now is planning the cross-border links needed to complete the corridor.

This effort integrates with the wider Gulf Railway initiative, a major GCC project intended to connect Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, and Oman through a unified regional rail network. The original target for initial operation is 2030. Israel and Jordan are expected to integrate into this system where diplomatic ties allow, creating a potential land bridge from the Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea.

the new 'Mainlander' passenger train service, NZ

 

The Southerner service from Christchurch to Invercargill ended in January 2002.