ROLL 104.
Numurkah, Seymour & Tocumwal, 1st January 1970. Swan Hill –
Kooloonong, 2nd January 1970.
All photos © Les
Brown. Not to be used for Publication.
Scanned
Negatives
104-01. T366.
Numurkah.
104-02. T366.
Numurkah.
104-03. 7RM.
Seymour.
104-04. 7RM.
Seymour.
104-05. X34
& S309. Seymour. Down Intercapital Daylight.
104-06. X34
& S309. Seymour.
104-07. B60
& T???. Seymour.
104-08. B71
& X??. Seymour.
104-09. T327.
Tocumwal.
104-10. T364.
Tocumwal.
104-11. 403.
Tocumwal.
104-12. 403.
Tocumwal. 403 has run around its trailer and waiting to return to Narrandera.
104-13. Tocumwal
Station. Standard Gauge line to Sydney on the left, Broad Gauge line to
Melbourne on the right. This NSW station seemed to have turned its back on the
line to Sydney seeming to focus on its closer Melbourne connection which was
first into the town. The Sydney rail connection was extended here from Finlay
in 1914, six years after the rail connection to Melbourne was finally built
following completion of the bridge across the Murray.
104-14. 403.
Tocumwal. The train has just departed for Narrandera.
104-15. T364.
Tocumwal. Note the Standard Gauge line to the silos crossing the Broad-Gauge
line. Unusually for a NSWGR station, it had Victorian Railways semaphore
signals for the Broad-Gauge.
104-16. 6RM
& 18RT. Swan Hill. The Rail Tractor was shunting the recently arrived Down
Swan Hill pass. A goods train is ready to depart for Bendigo behind the Rail
Motor.
104-17. 6RM
& 18RT. Swan Hill. Swan Hill can have an amazing temperature variation. I
spent one freezing cold and wet night in the RM when the top temperature for
that day, barely nudged 13o C. The next week it was over 41o C.
104-18. 6RM.
Piangil. The Kooloonong postal trolley on the right. I remember telling the
friendly Rail Motor driver that I heard rumours his Rail Motor service was
going to be closed. He was most upset, and I regretted my lack of tact (the
service did shut down some seven years later). After that I understood how
upsetting it must have been for railway staff to be relocated after a service
or a line closure. Many railway people were deeply involved in the life of the
small rural communities they served.
104-19. 6RM.
& Postal Trolley, Piangil.
104-20. Postal
Trolley, Natya.
104-21. Postal
Trolley. Kooloonong. I made this journey three times and always by Postal
Trolley which was later an enclosed “Casey Jones” ganger’s trolley as seen
here.