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Re: NR class loco names
John Cleverdon <clev@minyos.its.rmit.EDU.AU> wrote in article
<60cjdk$e$1@aggedor.rmit.edu.au>...
> Krel <krel4203@netconnect.com.au> wrote:
> : 1.. Can anyone explain the significance of City of Goulburn and La
Trobe
> : ???
>
> 5. Goulburn: perhaps becuase this is a major railway junction, and has
> a roundhouse ???
Unlikely considering that NR has very little to do with Goulburn. Most
trains just sail straight through. Goulburn not a major railway junction
for NR and the roundhouse is not used by them. There must be a reason
Goulburn got the nod over more appropriate candidates like Grafton, Taree,
Morandoo, Cooks River, Botany, Port Kembla, Parkes (City of Goobang
Junction ;-)) or Albury.
Same name on two locos are as follows:
City of Bendigo R 766 & N 463
City of Melbourne R 707 & XP 2017
City of Brisbane NR 7 & XP 2002
City of Port Augusta NR 28 & CLP 8
City of Albury N 453 & XP 2007
City of Goulburn XP 2008 & NR 8
Almost same name on two locos include:
City of Port Pirie ALF 18 & Port Pirie NR 74
La Trobe NR 61 & C. J. Latrobe S 303 (steam and diesel)( three locos ?!?)
City of Sydney XP 2000 & XP 2011 (different times)
Can anyone add more???
> For more names, visit my locomotive Web page at:
> http://www.railpage.org.au/loco/
> and have a browse.
>
>
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Cheers Krel
The Law of Inverse Proportions - The chances of the signal clearing
without having to get out of the cab and go to a lineside phone is inversly
proportional to the amount of rain falling at the time :-)