train stuff

[Mike Kelly]

Anyone interested in VR history ..Victorian Railways ? This is the site for you

Great photos of the last days of steam , including this gem .

http://www.victorianrailways.net/pho.../sub05_60.html

I particularly like this site : http://www.victorianrailways.net/index.html

VR kept a few steam trains running on the lesser used country lines right through the 1960's . The last official VR steam train run was in 1972 , not counting enthusiast trips which are still happening today.

MIKE

[gjamo]

When I was traveling to school by train in the 1960s there was 3 lines of steam engines stretching from Newport to Williamstown nearly 2 kilometers all waiting to be cut up as scrap.
A sad site.
Graeme

[Mike Kelly]

Originally Posted by gjamo

When I was traveling to school by train in the 1960s there was 3 lines of steam engines stretching from Newport to Williamstown nearly 2 kilometers all waiting to be cut up as scrap.
A sad site.
Graeme

Yes the train societies in Victoria got going just a tad too late to preserve most of it . Another ten years and most of it would have been saved . I never spotted a steam train, growing up in the Melbourne suburbs they didn't exist.

On interstate visits to NSW in the 1960's they were still to be seen in use just about everywhere , always finished in black . I was mesmerised by them having never seen them in Vic. Why did NSW keep them in service for longer ? I don't know .

[gjamo]

Mike come have a beer one day and I'll take you for a walk over the road.
Graeme

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~imcfa...ns/Newport.htm

http://wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.ph...0P1-page004720