Re: English Electric Loco's in ANZ
John Abraham Cleverdon (clev@minyos.its.rmit.EDU.AU)
1 May 1997 23:46:28 GMT
Jeff Schmidt (jschmidt@tpgi.com.au) wrote:
:
: What about the 1300 class? I have the actual manual for them around
: somewhere. I remember many pleasant nights spent walking in front of a
: triple header of 1320's sprinkling sand on the rail in the vain hope of
: getting traction. It was often said that they would slip on Bondi Beach. It
: was a firemans worst nightmare to be rostered on a Moura coal train when it
: was raining. And you can bet your last dollar it would be a "Pommy"
: consist. The English and water never got on well together. Of course the
: drivers had their tricks to get up the hills. It involved something to do
: with a piece of paper and the wheel slip relay. Naturally i never witnessed
: such practices. :)
:
These ended up being sent to Tasrail in the late 80's, and were designated
as the ZC class, being (nominally) renumbered ZC1-45 (1300-44). However,
not all the locos were renumbered. I believe (from memory) that several
of the 1300s that retained their numbers were later scrapped.
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