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Steamrail Victoria
Steamrail Victoria is a not-for-profit volunteer group established in 1965 to restore and operate historic locomotives and rolling stock used on the Rail transport in Victoria, railways in Victoria, Australia. The main depot of the group is at the Newport Workshops ('West Block') in suburban Melbourne. In addition to operating railfan special trains and charters for private groups, the group also operates special steam trains in the Melbourne suburban area. Steamrail regularly tours the state, including participation in annual events such as the Ballarat Heritage Weekend (steam locomotive Y112 is used to shuttle between Ballarat and Sulky Gully/Lal Lal). Steamrail Victoria also leases diesel locomotives to freight operators such as Southern Shorthaul Railroad, Southern Shorthaul Railroad (SSR) & Qube Logistics as required. Locomotives were also hired to El Zorro (railway), El Zorro until they ceased trading. The group has custody of a number of Victorian Railways steam locomoti ...
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Newport Workshops
The Newport Railway Workshops is a facility in the Melbourne suburb of Newport, Victoria, Newport, Australia, that builds, maintains and refurbishes Rolling stock, railway rollingstock. It is located between the Williamstown railway line, Williamstown and Werribee railway lines. History Plans for a workshop at Newport started in the 1860s, to replace the temporary Williamstown Workshops but nothing came of it. It was not until 1880 that work began, when the Victorian Railways purchased annexes used at the Melbourne International Exhibition (1880), 1880 Melbourne Exhibition and erected one of them at Newport, naming it the Newport Carriage Workshops when it began operation in 1882. Construction of the permanent workshops commenced in 1884, and was completed in 1889. Although the earlier carriage workshop closed at this time, it reopened in 1895 to manufacture signal equipment. The first Railroad car, carriages built by the workshops were completed in 1889, but locomotives were ma ...
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Victorian Railways K Class
The K class was a branch line steam locomotive that ran on Victorian Railways in Australia from 1922 to 1979. Although its design was entirely conventional and its specifications unremarkable, the K class was in practice a remarkably versatile and dependable locomotive. It went on to outlast every other class of steam locomotive in regular service on the VR, and no fewer than 21 examples of the 53 originally built have survived into preservation. History The K class was the first design from the VR Locomotive Design Section under the stewardship of Alfred E Smith as Chief Mechanical Engineer. The Locomotive Design Section had introduced successful mainline and branchline passenger locomotives with the A2 class and Dd class 4-6-0s, and had recently improved mainline goods services with the C class 2-8-0. They now turned their attention to a requirement for a more powerful branchline goods locomotive, and in 1922 produced a lighter 2-8-0 "Consolidation" locomotive with a a ...
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North British Locomotive Company
The North British Locomotive Company (NBL, NB Loco or North British) was created in 1903 through the merger of three Glasgow locomotive manufacturing companies; Sharp, Stewart and Company (Atlas Works), Neilson, Reid and Company (Hyde Park Works) and Dübs and Company (Queens Park Works), creating the largest locomotive manufacturing company in Europe and the British Empire. Its main factories were located at the neighbouring Atlas and Hyde Park Works in central Springburn, as well as the Queens Park Works in Polmadie. A new central Administration and Drawing Office for the combined company was completed across the road from the Hyde Park Works on Flemington Street by James Miller in 1909, later sold to Glasgow Corporation in 1961 to become the main campus of North Glasgow College (now Glasgow Kelvin College). The two other Railway works in Springburn were St. Rollox railway works, owned by the Caledonian Railway and Cowlairs railway works, owned by the North British Railway ...
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R700 At Newport Workshops
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London, Midland And Scottish Railway
The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMSIt has been argued that the initials LMSR should be used to be consistent with LNER, GWR and SR. The London, Midland and Scottish Railway's corporate image used LMS, and this is what is generally used in historical circles. The LMS occasionally also used the initials LM&SR. For consistency, this article uses the initials LMS.) was a British railway company. It was formed on 1 January 1923 under the Railways Act of 1921, which required the grouping of over 120 separate railways into four. The companies merged into the LMS included the London and North Western Railway, Midland Railway, the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (which had previously merged with the London and North Western Railway on 1 January 1922), several Scottish railway companies (including the Caledonian Railway), and numerous other, smaller ventures. Besides being the world's largest transport organisation, the company was also the largest commercial enterprise ...
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K190 At McKinnon Station Nov 2016
K19 may refer to: * K-19 (Kansas highway) * '' K-19: The Widowmaker'', an American historical drama film * K19 pipe, a diatreme in Northern Alberta, Canada * Albany Municipal Airport (Missouri) * Keratin 19, a human protein * , a Soviet submarine * Symphony No. 4 (Mozart) The Symphony No. 4 in D major, K. 19, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was composed in London during the Mozart family's Grand Tour of Europe in 1765, when Mozart was 9 years old. Background Even though the original of Mozart's manuscript has not su ...
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Newport–Sunshine Railway Line
The Newport–Sunshine line is a railway line in the western suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. Linking Newport station on the Werribee line to Sunshine station on the Sunbury line, it is primarily a freight line with no overhead wires, passenger stations or platforms but ''The Overland'' passenger service between Melbourne and Adelaide also uses this route. History The line was opened on 24 September 1887 to permit freight trains from the western and northern areas of Victoria (Australia) to access the then important port at Williamstown, Victoria. It was 4.29 miles long and is also known as the Brooklyn Loop line, for the former intermediate signal box on the line. Initially, it was not possible for trains to run from Brooklyn into Melbourne via Tottenham. A connection from the line to Tottenham Yard opened on 15 February 1965. Between Newport and Brooklyn, the line was provided with bidirectional double-track lines. By the 1930s, a number of private sidings were opened o ...
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Victorian Railways K Class Loco K183 At Patterson Station
Victorian or Victorians may refer to: 19th century * Victorian era, British history during Queen Victoria's 19th-century reign ** Victorian architecture ** Victorian house ** Victorian decorative arts ** Victorian fashion ** Victorian literature ** Victorian morality ** Victoriana Other * ''The Victorians'', a 2009 British documentary * Victorian, a resident of the state of Victoria, Australia * Victorian, a resident of the provincial capital city of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada * RMS ''Victorian'', a ship * Saint Victorian (other), various saints * Victorian (horse) * Victorian Football Club (other), either of two defunct Australian rules football clubs See also * Neo-Victorian, a late 20th century aesthetic movement * Queen Victoria * Victoria (other) Victoria most commonly refers to: * Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia * Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada * Victoria ( ...
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A VLine Trains Passes A Steam Locomotive At Pakenham
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ...
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D3 639 At Newport Workshops
D3, D03, D.III, D III or D-3 may refer to: Transportation Roads * London Buses route D3, a Transport for London contracted bus route * D3 motorway (Czech Republic), a motorway in the Czech Republic * D3 road (Croatia), a state road in Croatia * D3 motorway (Slovakia), a motorway in northern Slovakia Aircraft * Albatros D.III, a 1916 German biplane fighter aircraft * Dewoitine D.3, a Dewoitine aircraft * Dunne D.3, a British Dunne aircraft * Fokker D.III, a 1916 German single-seat fighter aircraft * Mercedes D.III, a 1914 German 6-cylinder, liquid-cooled inline aircraft engine * Phönix D.III, a variant of the Austro-Hungarian First World War Phönix D.I biplane fighter * Pfalz D.III, a 1917 German fighter aircraft * Schütte-Lanz D.III, a 1918 German fighter aircraft prototype * Siemens-Schuckert D.III, a 1917 German prototype single-seat fighter aircraft Automobiles * Ford D3 platform, a full-size car automobile platform *Peugeot D3, a panel van manufactured from 1950 to 195 ...
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A2 986 At Nilma
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ...
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South Australian Railways Steel Carriage Stock
Between 1936 and 1942, South Australian Railways built 36 steel carriages at its Islington Railway Workshops. All were painted cream and green being repainted maroon and silver in the 1960s. Aside from a few written off after accidents, all passed to Australian National in March 1978.South Australian Steel Cars
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In the early 1980s, 14 were sold to SteamAge to operate charther services out of . In 1987, these were sold to Australian Vintage Travel and converted to for use on the ''