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The Victorian Railways E class was a class of electric locomotive that ran on the Victorian Railways (VR) from 1923 until 1984. Introduced shortly after the electrification of the suburban rail system in Melbourne, Australia, and based on the same electrical and traction equipment [a] as Melbourne's early suburban electric multiple unit fleet, they provided power for suburban goods services ...
D 2 700 – D 2 799: Ex-D D class: c. 1927 –1962: 107: 1: 73 converted to D 3; 1 at Newport Railway Museum; 33 scrapped; K class: 2-8-0: K 100 – K 109, K 140 – K 192 § VR Newport Workshops: 1922–1979: 53: 21: 1 at Locomotive Restoration Group; 4 at Mornington Railway; 1 at Newport Railway Museum; 1 at Seymour Railway Heritage Centre; 5 ...
The last original 2-4-2T engine, 236, was used as a shunter at Newport Workshops until it was taken out of service in 1954. The locomotive was then selected for display at Spencer Street Station for the 100th anniversary of Victoria's railways as it was in good enough condition, ultimately sparing it from immediate scrapping.
They were all built in the 1920s at VR's Newport Workshops for suburban goods service, [2] using the same General Electric traction motors and electrical equipment employed on Melbourne's EMU fleet. During the early 1950s, VR embarked on an £ 80 million program dubbed Operation Phoenix to rebuild a network badly run down by years of Depression ...
C501 was acquired by the Seymour Railway Heritage Centre and the other nine went to Allco Rail, with two leased to Pacific National and seven to Silverton Rail as the Cs class. [5] Following the collapse of Allco Finance three were sold to Chicago Freight Car Leasing Australia and six to Greentrains in January 2008 with all resuming their ...
The B class are a class of diesel locomotives built by Clyde Engineering, Granville for the Victorian Railways in 1952–1953. Ordered and operated by the Victorian Railways, they initiated the dieselisation of the system and saw use on both passenger and freight services, with many remaining in service today, both in preserved and revenue service.
At Seymour N464 leads the last locomotive hauled train from Albury on 30/07/22 N class in the original orange and grey livery hauling H type carriages at Geelong in 1993 N463 in the 1995 livery hauling N type carriages on the North East line in October 2007 N460 in the 2008 Mk3 livery at Southern Cross in September 2008 N469 in the 1995 Mk2 livery at Southern Cross in August 2006 N457 on up ...
Diesel Electric Rail Motor Preservation Association of Victoria Supply of spare parts Formerly with Mornington Railway, transferred September 2015 60RM 1930-06-18 1951-10-29 Diesel Electric Rail Motor Preservation Association of Victoria Diesel Electric Rail Motor Preservation Association of Victoria Pending restoration Stored at Newport Workshops