ROLL 1.
Menzies Creek, 22nd May & Newport Workshops, 23rd May
1965.
All photos ©
Les Brown. Not to be used for Publication.
1-1. Climax
Locomotive. Menzies Creek Museum. Lying derelict in Gippsland for many years before
being put on display in the Museum, It has now been returned to service.
1-2. Menzies
Creek.
1-3. Menzies
Creek.
1-4. E369.
Newport Workshops. This engine is now preserved at the A.R.H.S. Railway Museum,
North Williamstown.
1-5. E371. Newport
Workshops. Derelict it is but not as bad as some. This engine was actually put
back in to service as a workshops shunter when they retired another E-class
(E377), which was in even worse condition. This was the last E-class in service
when it was withdrawn 18 months earlier from shunting duties at Ballarat on 15th
November 1963.
1-6. D3619.
Newport Workshops.
1-7. N410.
Newport Workshops. After the closure of North Melbourne Locomotive Depot in
December 1964, steam engines that were worked to Melbourne, as N410 did here on
the return of a rail fan trip to Shelbourne, were sometimes serviced and held
at the Workshops. The last of the first series of 30 Newport built N class
engines in service. N410 was scrapped on
28 May 1967.
1-8. A2884.
Newport Workshops. A Stephenson Link version,
1-9. R743.
Newport Workshops.
1-10. l-r; A2884,
R757, R758, R7??’s. Newport Workshops. Between the time A2884 was
last used as a steam washout boiler engine at North Melbourne Locomotive Depot (it
was actually one of the last engines to leave the depot) and preservation at
the North Williamstown Railway Museum, it spent some time in this line up.
1-11. l-r;
R743 & R7??’s. Newport Workshops.
1-12. R757
& R758. Newport Workshops.