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Seymour Rail Heritage Centre's special from Melbourne with S307,C501 stabled here in the yard at Portland overnight on both the Friday and Saturday nights during its Portland trip with passenger access just past the bridge. On the Sunday morning 16-7-23, the duo depart the yard for Heywood and return on a quick shuttle trip.
It had been 23 years between a special passenger working visiting Hamilton station as S307,C501 arrive from Portland with a day trip and to work a couple of shuttle trips between Hamilton and Chrome loop on 15-7-23.
The previous special to go through Hamilton was in April 2000, when the two NSW 38 class steam locos went to Portland and return
CLF1 (Milton Bromwich), S311 (Sir Ferdinand von Mueller) & CLP12 (Casper) lead 1CM6 through Gowanbrae, near Airport West. Having loaded at Coolamon en route to Appleton Dock to unload. 17/10/21
S312,T363 shunt a rake of hoppers to the Quambatook silos after arriving on 9-4-21.
S312 is painted in a variation of the Railpower scheme it previously wore but rebadged into SSR while T363 is in the traditional SSR yellow and black scheme
Passing through typical south western Victorian forrest and farming land, preserved locos S307,C501 pass the Illuka mineral sands processing plant with the 2nd shuttle service from Chrome loop heading back to Hamilton late on the afternoon of 15-7-23
S301 crosses the Barry road level crossing at Somerton. My notes show that 301 was on standard gauge on this day. 4-3-1986
Car: Mercedes-Benz 300 SEL.
Engine: 2960cc in-line 6.
Power: 177 BHP.
Top Speed: 137 MPH.
0-60: 9.7 s.
Fuel: Petrol.
Weight: 1,696 kg.
Body: 4 door saloon.
Layout: Front engine, rear wheel drive.
Years of production: 1979 to 1991.
Date taken: 27th July 2025.
S302,B76 on a special trees for life charter unload passengers at Lake Modewarre on 13-8-2000. After unloading, the train will continue to Winchelsea to run around, picking up the passengers on the way back towards Melbourne
Location: Berlin - 833km from home.
Of course, this S-Class had to be from Asker and Bearum, Norway's richest district.
BS = Asker & Baerum
Steamrail Victoria’s S301 & R761 are seen at KM Post 229, preparing to return to Echuca with the second shuttle of the day
Saturday 7th June, 2025
250607 S301-R761 Echuca, VIC
In the rather faded Pacific National Blue and Yellow colours, S class locomotive S306 is seen stabled in 8 road of Newport Workshops.
S306 has spent most of the recent years in storage with Pacific National, in both Victoria (Dynon) and New South Wales (Parkes). Since June of 2019, S306 and other Pacific National diesel locomotives have been stored at Newport with a contract with 707 Operations.
During this time, the 1957 built streamliner was handed over to the ownership of 707 Operations for heritage use.
Newport Workshops, Vic.
25/1/20
Owned at the time by CFCLA, S311 is stabled at the Islington Workshops on 18-9-14 . The Two CFCLA S class locos had been in South Australia for a while working on hire to Qube working ballast trains and also Balco workings between Bowmans and Outer Harbor.
CLP12, 4910, S311 & CLF3 leading 7MC5 through Hoppers Crossing, en route to The Rock & Boree Creek, ex Geelong Grain loop. This was the third time in recent months SSR have run off their Appleton to NSW schedule and run out west. 07/08/21
Passing the lower quadrant signals at Barnes, the junction of the Moulamein and Deniliquin lines is S313,B76,T395 working the P&O rice train from Deniliquin to Melbourne on 14-10-11
After arriving at Quambatook and detaching the 2 rear locos, SSR's locos S312,T363 pull a string of hoppers ahead during shunting moves to position for loading at Quambatook on 9-4-21
Location: Berlin
It's very weird to spot an older S-Class as a diplomatic car. It's a nice find, to be honest, but I think it's pretty weird as well. Even when Gabon doesn't have all the money in the world, you usually get huge discounts on your CD cars.
46 = Gabon
0 = Diplomatic
1 = Ambassador
29RM with a regular up service on the final day of operation crosses S305 on a down goods at Dimboola, Sat. 2 December 1978.
Sydney's Saturday morning temperature had more than halved compared to the previous day's 40-plus degree maximum as SSR's 8146 service from Kelso rounds the curve near Flemington South Junction led by the Clyde-GM trio of B61-GM22-S317.
075086 21 Nov 2015
Very elegant, the metallic colour suits it nicely. A far cry from what they produce nowadays.....
This one looks to have been off the road since 2010/11.
Having just departed from Appleton Dock, C501, 852, S303, 4908, CLF1 and CLF4 lead SSR's 7MC7 empty grain across the Maribyrnong River bridge and into the Bunbury Street tunnel at the commencement of their journey to Ardlethan. 17/12/2022.