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PB15 454
The lesson for the day appears to involve the finer points of sandpapering!. Meanwhile, PB15 454, ex QR, pushes it's train back into the platform on the Belmont Common, past a diminutive, "under repair", Number 6.
The "Belmont Common Railway" operated by the "Geelong Steam Preservation Society", (GSPS), was originally set up for the preservation of two of the steam loco's from the "Australian Portland Cement"s, (APC), limestone transport system at Fyansford. These were the Vulcan Iron Works 0-6-0, Number 4 and the Hudswell Clark & Co 0-4-2, Number 6. The track layout ultimately consisted of a 1km long dead end track with a couple of storage sidings. The line had no run around loops so all trains were run with the loco leading on the "down" to the dead end where the train would be then "set back" to the station.
Unfortunatly, in my view anyhow, the GSPS were to digress quite considerably from their original charter, they set about relocating all manner of diverse rollingstock from almost every other corner of the Australian continent, particularly when the extra storage space became available at Queenscliff. In doing so the local rail heritage seemed to become neglected and was even bastardised with the broad gauge track on the VR's closed Bellarine Peninsular line being converted to narrow. The motley collection that they have accrued seems to have grown to become nothing more than an oversized "toy train set".
Taken on the afteroon of Sunday, the 1st of April, 1979, shortly before the society's relocation to Queenscliff.
PB15 454
The lesson for the day appears to involve the finer points of sandpapering!. Meanwhile, PB15 454, ex QR, pushes it's train back into the platform on the Belmont Common, past a diminutive, "under repair", Number 6.
The "Belmont Common Railway" operated by the "Geelong Steam Preservation Society", (GSPS), was originally set up for the preservation of two of the steam loco's from the "Australian Portland Cement"s, (APC), limestone transport system at Fyansford. These were the Vulcan Iron Works 0-6-0, Number 4 and the Hudswell Clark & Co 0-4-2, Number 6. The track layout ultimately consisted of a 1km long dead end track with a couple of storage sidings. The line had no run around loops so all trains were run with the loco leading on the "down" to the dead end where the train would be then "set back" to the station.
Unfortunatly, in my view anyhow, the GSPS were to digress quite considerably from their original charter, they set about relocating all manner of diverse rollingstock from almost every other corner of the Australian continent, particularly when the extra storage space became available at Queenscliff. In doing so the local rail heritage seemed to become neglected and was even bastardised with the broad gauge track on the VR's closed Bellarine Peninsular line being converted to narrow. The motley collection that they have accrued seems to have grown to become nothing more than an oversized "toy train set".
Taken on the afteroon of Sunday, the 1st of April, 1979, shortly before the society's relocation to Queenscliff.