Re: RSA & NRR to Brisbane

[petan@NOSPAMion.com.au (PETer and susAN)]

Dave,

sorry but the NRR  locos are 421 not 42 as used on the early Brisbane Limited.

CHeers
Peter Cokley

On Sat, 07 Aug 1999 10:59:38 GMT, "WhaleOilBeefHooked" <daproc@spambait.umpires.com> wrote:

>Maurie Daly wrote in message ...
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>>Can you quote a year when this happened?
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>Back in the 50's and 60's - I had a photo somewhere (long time ago) of a 42
>at South Brisbane interstate.
>
>>Prior to the creation of NRC when 81s started running on the Nth Coast Line
>>the Nth Coast Line was exclusively Alco locos, no GMS .
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>Only in the 70's and 80's. They transferred all the GM's down south to make
>maintenance eaier - there were only ever 36 mainline GM's before the 81's,
>so it would be easier to concentrate spares this way.
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>>The Brisbane Limited Express was rostered always for 2 X 44S ,the Brisbane
>>Express when it ran was either 1 X 44 or 2 X 44,the Grafton Mail was 1 X
>>44 or 1 X 45 .
>>AFAIK the 421s were exclusively used on the Main Sth and to a
>>lesser extent on the Western Line to Broken Hill when the IP started
>>running.
>>It would have been rare to even get one to Broadmedow.
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>Definitely had a photo of a 421 at Sth Brisbane interstate. The working did
>not last overly long though.
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>DaveP
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