Re: Easter 1969 Part 1

["m,hardacre" <hardacre@acay.com.au>]

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Patrick,

That must have been some combination.  You didn't record which way the units
were facing (namely the 44, as I persume the 49, being on the front, would
be No.1 end leading)

Regards,

Mark


-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick J Buchanan <mainline@cyber.net.au>
To: Aus loco discussion mailing list <Ausloco@listbot.com>
Date: Saturday, April 29, 2000 6:07
Subject: Re: Easter 1969 Part 1


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>Roger,
>4912 obviously required a return visit to Cardiff a few months later, as I
>noted it at Gosford on Thur, 5/6/69.
>It arrived on a Up Goods at 2AM, 'leading' 4439.
>4622 was attached, as the Banker.
>It then departed at 2.25AM, as 4622+4912+4439.
>All engines were powering !!
>Regards
>Patrick J. Buchanan
>mainline@cyber.net.au
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Roger Renton <rogerrenton@ozemail.com.au>
>To: Ausloco <Ausloco@listbot.com>
>Date: Thursday, 27 April 2000 23:52
>Subject: Re: Easter 1969 Part 1
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>>Mark's record of Black Thursday 1969 sent me scrambling for my old running
>>books as I also recall seeing 4912 on the Short North around this period.
>>
>>On Friday 9 May 1969 I travelled to Fassifern on 19 North Paper Train
>behind
>>3813. An interesting sequence of Down trains followed in the pre-dawn
>>hours:- 3654 + 6009 on 413 Express Goods, 4305 on 661 Goods and 4304 +
4912
>>on 635 Goods.
>>
>>This was 4912's load trial after overhaul at Cardiff Workshops and one of
>>the few occasions a 49 and 43 would have worked together.
>>
>>Roger Renton
>
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