Victorian numbering (was: [VIC] S301 back in service?)

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@sd5.mailbank.com>]

Just further to this, it is interesting to note that the Victorian diesel S
class carried the same numbers as the steam S class (well, the first 4 did,
then they kept going).

Was this standard practice? When the start reusing a letter, do they start
reusing the same number series as well?

As I do not have a list of Victorian steam locos available, I cannot check,
so I am throwing it over to you extremely wise and knowledgable people.

Dave

Michael wrote in message <8E96A4508telstraNews@vic.news.telstra.net>...
>Dave Proctor said on 08-Dec-1999 in <82kngq$hht$1@news1.mpx.com.au>:
>
>>NOOOOOOO! Say it isn't so. I would have thought that a loco as important
>>to the country as the Victorian steam S class would have had at least
>>one example preserverd.
>
>Nup. All scrapped. Victorian governments have always been like that. Take
>something out of service and scrap it so it can't be brought back. Some of
>the S class tender bogies however were preserved for use on heavy transport
>flat or well top wagons, which were used for transporting large
>transformers to Gippsland I believe. The rest of the loco however, probably
>drives you around on the road (or part thereof) or holds cat food.
>
>>(btw, I think it was an absolute disgrace that one was not preserved.
>>Wouldn't it be a sight to see a WallyRail train with a streamlined S up
>>the front!)
>>
>
>Yes, it would be nice, however I don't think the S class would be a loco
>that you could strip of it's VR livery without making it look pathetic. You
>would also need the matching rollingstock to keep is consistant. You could
>of course have "WEST COAST RAILWAYS" in an art deco typeface on the side of
>the loco without ruining it's appearance.
>
>Say, I hear that Dorrigo have a few 38's laying around that we could
>convert to replica S's :-) Or or or, we could always tap into the strategic
>reserve beneath Flagstaff station where I heard that the steam S classes
>are stored :-)
>
>Ahh, it's nice to dream aint it.
>
>Regards
>Michael
>
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