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Re: [Ausloco] V/Line engines working in South Australia
At 20:21 25/06/2000 PDT, you wrote:
>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 ?
>
>
I know it's not quite a branch line working but in November 1987, X50 and a
930 both off the Overland worked light to Monarto South to pick up a load
off the Appamurra branch. The branch train was worked by a single 830 which
I think if I recall correctly went light back to Tailem. The X led the
loaded train back to Adelaide making for some nice shots. The trip seemed to
take all day...the grain was put away at Nairne and was run through by the
up Mt Gambier bluebirds. A shot of this was published in Newsrail magazine
some time ago.
Cheers
Stuart
Dr Stuart Turnbull
RAILSCAPE Photographer
Phone 03 9376 5394
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