Re: Inaugural IP locos

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

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I had a check of Bayley's book and the two photos show the 421's coming off
at Broken Hill and two 600's dropping on. (Remembering at this period of
time, the SAR operated to Pt. Pirie from Broken Hill with the CR taking over
from there.  It was the days of operating isolation and neither systems
locomotives encroached on the others lines - except, of course, at the
hand-over points or when locos were being delivered).

Bayley does have a photo of CL1 hauling the 'inaugural' IP sitting in Pt.
Pirie platform with the caption stating that it had just arrived from Port
Augusta.  He also has a photo on the front cover, again stating that it is
eastbound.  The headboard it carries, however, states "Indian-Pacific
Inaugural Sydney-Perth".  According to the ARHS SA Divn journal "The
Recorder", it would appear that this train is initial train to transfer the
IP carriages to Sydney.  If so, this train passed through Pt. Pirie on
Saturday 28th February 1970.

Grahame Fergus posted that in the inaugural westbound IP ex Pt. Pirie, GM 47
would have to be the middle unit.  I intend to agree as it stands to reason
that GM25 (without it's MU connections on the No.1 end) would have real
difficulty being the middle unit.  "The Recorder", however, states that the
train departed Pt. Pirie as CL1+GM25+GM47.  I would suspect that it may be a
case of incorrect reporting over 30 years ago.

Regards,

Mark



-----Original Message-----
From: Stratton, Chris CP <Stratton.Chris.CP@bhp.com.au>
To: 'Aus loco discussion mailing list' <Ausloco@listbot.com>
Date: Friday, March 17, 2000 7:30
Subject: RE: Inaugural IP locos


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>Two photos in William A Bayley's book "Standard Gauge Triumph across
Australia" (or something like that) show 42106+421 coming off the train and
CL1 going on to the train. The captions say it is the inaugural IP so it is
probably the real IP, not the press train.
>Regards,
>Chris.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Scott Martin [mailto:semartin@idx.com.au]
>Sent: Thursday, 16 March 2000 18:38
>To: Ausloco
>Subject: Inaugural IP locos
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>Aus loco discussion mailing list
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>A big thank you to all who replied to my post on the first IP. A lot of
>good info was turned up, although I am still unsure as to which locos
>hauled the first and second divisions west of Lithgow to Broken Hill.
>Thanks again
>
>Scott
>
>
>EOM
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