Re: RSA & NRR to Brisbane

["Chris Stratton" <stratton.chris.cp@nospam.bhp.com.au>]

The 42s ran to Brisbane when first introduced. There is a photo in a book
somewhere of a 42 embedded in the buffer stops at South Brisbane.
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Regards,
Chris Stratton
Wollongong, NSW, Australia
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Maurie Daly <mauried@commslab.gov.au> wrote in message
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> Can you quote a year when this happened?
> 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 .
> 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.
>
> MD
>