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The VFW cars were painted in VR Blue and Gold, and were on 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. The cars were used for special excursion trips, generally scouting or defence 'specials' that required one train. When the VFW cars were returned to broad gauge in the 1980s, bogies were sourced from scrapped Tait carriages. [9]
Constance FitzMaurice, Countess of Orkney (23 January 1865 – 9 May 1946), also known as Connie Gilchrist, was a British child artist's model, actress, dancer and singer who, at a very early age, attracted the attention of the painters Frederic Leighton, Frank Holl, William Powell Frith and James McNeill Whistler, the writer and photographer Lewis Carroll and aristocrats, Lord Lonsdale and ...
With the demise of West Coast Railway in 2004, PCP292 became the property of Steamrail, which repainted the van blue and gold with Steamrail Victoria lettering. PCP 294 was acquired by 707 Operations and repainted in the Vintage Rail Travel red and silver livery with 707 Operation logos. Both vans are used as observation vans on railfan tours.
In late August 2009, locomotives S310 and T382 were transferred to Seymour and became part of the SRHC collection. Both units were delivered in a non-operational state with T382 being the first to undergo re-activation as well as a full bodywork overhaul and repaint into the Victorian Railways blue and gold livery and ran its first tour on 18 December 2021 to Tocumwal, New South Wales. [8]
VR Blue and Gold Preserved-operational VR (Built), VicRail (1974), V/Line (1983), VicTrack Heritage Register (1996) 1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in) broad gauge Withdrawn after suffering a serious electrical fault, allocated to Steamrail Victoria in 1996, first ran in preservation in 1997 [17] S314 61-231 Sir John O'Shanassy: 20 Apr 1961 7 Feb 1969 7 Feb 1969
VR Blue and Gold Rebuilt as P23 (1984-1985) VR (Built), VicRail (1976), V/Line (1983) 1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in) broad gauge T327 Monday, 28 May 1956 December 1984 VR Blue and Gold Rebuilt as P17 (1985) VR (Built), VicRail (1976), V/Line (1983) 1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in) broad gauge T328 Monday, 18 June 1956 September 1985 VR Blue and Gold
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Richard Old was born in Staithes, North Yorkshire in about 1856.At about the age of twenty-five and living in Middlesbrough, he began making models. [1] For the next thirty-two years he continued to create models in the kitchen of his four-room cottage where he lived, at 6 Ruby Street Middlesbrough, until there were a total of 767 models contained in 128 packing cases.