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Re: BL onto the FAT track
- To: ausrail@railpage.org.au
- Subject: Re: BL onto the FAT track
- From: "Roderick Smith" <rodsmith@werple.net.au>
- Date: 28 May 1998 08:28:31 GMT
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- Organization: Rail News Victoria
- References: <3566bb37.33440046@news.netconnect.com.au> <895932662.513925@woody.hotkey.net.au> <6k84mh$cgv$1@gruvel.une.edu.au>
CR came lower down too:
A shunting loco (class DH?) was named (F J O'Shea?).
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Regards
Roderick Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor
David Bromage <dbromage@metz.une.edu.au> wrote in article
> It was CR/ANR tradition to name locomotives, usually the class leader,
> after serving Prime Ministers, or if that PM already had a named loco
> after the current Minister for Transport.
> Prime Ministers:
> GM1 Robert Gordon Menzies
> CL1 John Gorton
> CL9 Gough Whitlam
> CL17 William McMahon
> AL18 Malcolm Fraser
> BL26 Bob Hawke
> Ministers for Transport:
> NSU51 George McLeay
> NT65 Gordon Freeth
> DL36 Peter Morris
> EL51 Bob Brown
> NJ1 was named Ben Chifley, although he was only a former Prime Minister.