This first photo shows 3606 hauling a 4 car Pullman set up Cowan Bank, with what appears to be an EHO trundling behind. I am always happy for esteemed readers to correct or add to this caption... going out on a limb to guess this could be the up Kempsey Day Train? Just a stab in the dark but I seem to remember these carriages being used on this service prior to being condemned in 1960. Glorious shot of a pig in its prime though.
This next shot perhaps eclipses the first? Here we have 3818 on an up Newcastle Flyer service. Gee it would have been something special to be line-side as it passed.
Anyway, this nearly ends my little cache of gems from the lens of Mr Brady. There are a few more trams around Glebe to sort through, then a special collection of industrial locos in operation around Port Kembla in August 1955. Will get them sorted and up here as fast as I can.
Cheers,
Don
PS for details on why I am displaying another man's (remarkable) efforts, please read my post from 12 October 2017.
Don, given the dates of 1956, the shot of 3606 would have not been long after receiving its new Belpair Boiler, my books that would show the reboilering date is still packed in a dark box
ReplyDeleteHi Colin, well spotted. 3606 had been reboilered in March/April 1954 so the boiler is just out of its wrapper really. Its sad but I sleep with the Loco Data Book (June 1967 edition) just in reach for occasions like this, and the odd night of insomnia!
ReplyDeleteCheers,Don