[Ausloco] V/Line engines working in South Australia

["ben scaro" <bscaro@hotmail.com>]

Hi

I am trying to find instances of V/Line engines working in South Australia 
on branch lines in the 1980s.  It seems to have been fairly common to use 
these locos, which would have otherwise been sitting idle at Mile End or Dry 
Creek, to run short trip trains in the Adelaide metro area.

But there are only a few occasions documented where V/Line locos made it out 
onto the branch lines north of Adelaide.  In 1989, an N class hauled a short 
train of grain hoppers to test an outloader at the Roseworthy silos.  In 
1994, there was an instance of an X being used on the Barossa stone train.  
So it did happen, if only rarely.  I am not sure whether there was a system 
of charges that might have made it too expensive for AN to use V/Line units 
this way. But at least during the grain season, it might have been an 
attractive option.

Does anyone remember any other instances of this occurring ?

Cheers

Ben
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