Jolimont Pilots and Headlights

["Chris Parnell" <chris@infinisource.com>]

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Stephen

My memory of travelling home in the evening peak and frequently
observing the 4.45 Traralgon being docked to 1 Centre at Flinders St,
tells me that in the 1970's and perhaps until the removal of the yard
for the construction of the Underground, the old Gippsland passenger
yard was the stamping ground of the F's. Many a trainee fireman I knew
started over there, and often it was F210, from memory, dragging the
cars in. An L would attach (after a sprint from the Parcels Dock).

I never saw 156M emerge from the precints of the Workshops at
Jolimont. I suspect it went no further than Yard Footbridge in its
travels. 118M was the same; they both had the original plate frame
motors, trips (whatever for?) and no Headlight, just the aperture for
the original kerosine oil lamp.

I suspect that the absence of the headlight curtailed any travel
outside the workshops. These NSW drivers who tell me tales of going
over the hill to Lithgow and other places without a headlight at night
mystify me.  How can you see the road or where you are going?

When did headlights become standard feature on NSW locomotives and
sparks?


Chris Parnell


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