Re: Jolimont Pilots and Headlights

["Peter Knife" <pijik@knifecutt.fam.aust.com>]

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Chris,

This has certainly triggered a few memories. I travelled frequently between
Flinders St and Morwell between 1963 and 1969, often on what was then the
4.53pm Traralgon. My notes at the time show that the pilot was usually an E,
and I cannot recall having seen an F at Flinders St in those years. IIRC we
had to go to Spencer St to see them. Presumably the Fs took over in the 70s
at Flinders St.

Glimpses of the two double-ended Doggies were a highlight, although I
believe they were 113M and 156M. They were the only surviving original ABM
motors. A handful of Tait Ms were converted to double-enders also, but that
was a relatively late conversion (late 60s or early 70s).

Cheers,
Peter
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Peter Knife
pijik@knifecutt.fam.aust.com
http://www.fam.aust.com/knifecutt/sar.htm
Sydney, Australia

----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Parnell <chris@infinisource.com>
To: Aus loco discussion mailing list <Ausloco@listbot.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 8:18 PM
Subject: Jolimont Pilots and Headlights


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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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