A Hitachi set runs through Sandown Park heading towards Dandenong. The extra wide overhead gantries here are evidence of former sidings which were used to stable special trains on race days at the... (more)

After spending nearly two years in storage at Macaulay, a six car Hitachi set runs into Southern Cross station to reverse direction, before heading to Newport Workshops for eventual sale or scrapp... (more)

After 42 years of service, Melbourne's stainless steel 'Hitachi' trains have finally been withdrawn. On Saturday 12th of April 2014 electric preservation group Elecrail chartered one of the remain... (more)

One of the few remaining Hitachi sets accelerates away from Wattle Glen station on a morning run to Hurstbridge.

One of the few remaining Hitachi sets rolls across the Eltham Trestle Bridge with an off-peak run to Hurstbridge. For more info on this historic bridge see this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch... (more)

On a seemingly normal Thursday morning, one of the few remaining Hitachi sets rolls into platform 3 at Flinders Street station, with the Elizabeth Street clock tower in the background. Little did ... (more)

Hitachi arriving at Dennis with an afternoon run from Greensborough.

The Autumn sun is low in the sky as one of the seven remaining Hitachi sets arrives at West Footscray with an evening service to the city.

The trailing car of a Hitachi set clatters over the crossover at Heidelberg as it departs empty for Victoria Park siding, where it will bide its time until the next peak. This is one of only two r... (more)

273M (formerly 10M, recently renumbered to make way for a new order of X'Trapolis sets) trails a down Hurstbridge service near Wattletree Road, Eltham. The remaining Hitachi sets are all on peak-o... (more)

295M (recently re-numbered from 7M) leads the rest of its set along the single line near Eltham, with a warm summer afternoon service from Hurstbridge to Flinders Street. This particular set was a... (more)

One of only 7 remaining Hitachi sets (originally supposed to be withdrawn by 2006) is seen here crawling forward at Rosanna, awaiting line clear to pass through the single track tunnel to Heidelbe... (more)

It would be nice if this train was actually going to Coldstream, as the destination states, which is a disused platform about 5km past the end of the wire at Lilydale!

One of the seven remaining Hitachi sets rounds the curve just after Ivanhoe on a down service to Hurstbridge, on a cool winter morning. The stainless steel fronts of these cars are very reflective... (more)

It's a crisp Autumn morning, and I've purposefully missed my train after a tip-off that one of the 7 remaining Hitachi sets is heading my way, seen here rounding the curve into Alphington, bound f... (more)