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Not long after clearing Portland, Seymour Rail Heritage Centre locos S307,C501 approaches Penny's Lane with a shuttle trip to Heywood and return on 16-7-23
44206, S302, S317 and GM22 (offline) make up for lost time as they race west across the Darling Causeway between Mt Victoria and Bell. The railway line literally runs along a knifes edge ridge before descending down into Lithgow via The Ten Tunnels.
The day had started off warm and sunny, although the further west the train went, the more pronounced the clouds became. Quite quickly the clouds went from individual nuisances ruining sunny photos to form a thick blanket covering the central west. Disappointing, our last shot "under the wires" for the day also happened to be our last shot with any sun on the train.
S313 and G515 race into Arcadia with a late running 9371 container train to Deniliquin in Southern NSW.
Thursday 13th April 2017
W126
There are indeed several Mercedes S-Class models that were extended in the style of the Mercedes 600 Pullman. Apparently, there remained a certain demand for such luxury limousines, even after production was stopped in Sindelfingen. They seem to compete in luxury and extravagant equipment. With a length of 6.998 mm, this is the longest one we could find. It was built by one of the most productive tuners, especially when it comes to Mercedes : Schulz Tuning. He created the most diverse models, preferably bearing the star, ranging from a Golf clone based on a Mercedes 190 to an entire series of G-Class off-road vehicles with 6 wheels, long before Mercedes did it themselves.
German Tuners from the '80s and the '90s
05/09/2025 - 14/12/2025
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Brussels - Belgium
July 2025
A set of four locos as S310,C509,C503,C502 have just departed the MPC heading to the AFT to work services to Melbourne later that evening on 6-1-1995.
S310,C509 will work AM5 while C503,C502 will work AM7
El Zorro mineral sand train 9786V trundles along a a leisurely 40kph between Hopetoun and Beulah behind S302 T386 and 44202.
De winter van 2019-2020 samengevat op de grille van deze S-klasse.
Lille / Rijsel, Frankrijk
The winter of 2019-2020 summarized on the grille of this S-Class.
Lille / Rijsel, France
Once both in the V/line orange and Grey and both owned by West Coast rail from the mid 1990's, Southern Shorthaul Railroad locos S312,T363 combine many years later to load a grain train at Quambatook on 21-4-21
S317 and GM27 pair up to work T279 from Port Botany to Yennora, seen here crossing Unwins Bridge Road, Sydenham.
Four S Class express passenger locomotives were built by the Victorian Railways, entering service in 1928. The bottom model shows S 300 in its original unstreamlined form with the red livery it received in 1934.
With the introduction of the new Spirit of Progress service in 1937 (providing the Victorian leg of the Melbourne to Sydney express), the locomotives were streamlined and received a new blue and gold livery. The top model shows S 302 after streamlining with the larger tender required for the express run from Melbourne to Albury on the New South Wales border.
Location: Berlin - 587km from home.
This plate from Kaliningrad is really nice. Triple-X combined with triple-1s, definitely one of the nicer combinations to get in Russia and unsurprisingly seen on an upscale vehicle.
39 = Kaliningrad
SEYMOUR RAIL HERITAGES BEAUTIFULLY PRESENTED TRIO SLUMBER QUIETLY IN JUNEE YARD AFTER COMPLETING THEIR DUTIES FOR THNSW HAULING THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY SOUTHERN AURA
The new Mercedes S-Class was introduced in Aug. 1965 with Typ 250 and Typ 300.
The 250 SE was replaced by the 280 SE already in Dec. 1967.
The original colour of this 280 SE used to be blue.
3499 cc 8 cylinder engine.
1547 kg.
Production Mercedes S-Klasse: Aug. 1965-Sept. 1972.
Production Mercedes 280 SE: Dec. 1967-Sept. 1972.
Production Mercedes 280 SE 3.5 V8: Febr. 1971-Sept. 1972.
Original old Dutch reg. number: Sept. 8, 1971 (still valid).
Very recently sold: Oct. 9, 2020.
Oostzaan, Bombraakpad, Aug. 23, 2016.
© 2016 Sander Toonen Amsterdam | All Rights Reserved
CFCLA's S300,S311 are on hire to the Balco as they pass over the Port River bridge at Port Adelaide with Balco's 4120 service from Bowmans to Pelican Point on 25-7-13
A rarity by 1995 was an S class leading a freight in South Australia.
On 6-1-1995 6AM5 has just departed the Adelaide Freight Terminal and approaches Dudley Park Station with S310,C509 up the front
S313 and G515 power away from Seymour with a late running 9371 container train bound for Deniliquin in Southern NSW.
Thursday 13th April 2017
1925 Marshall tractor No. 78953 'Moonraker' (TD 2652) outside The Black Horse Inn after a short run through the North Shropshire lanes.
T386, T381 and S317 power away from Seymour with 9383 empty SSR grain train to Murchison East.
Tuesday 12th December 2017
Inside of the CFCLA sheds at Islington Workshops on 18-9-14 is GWA loco CLF5 undergoing an overhaul while alongside is S311 being serviced as well as further back is Pacific National's Keswick shunter PL1
S317,S302 have just ran around its consist at Piangil after arriving from Melbourne and will plave the consist under the silos to commence loading on the morning of 24-10-18
For sale at 4,900 and 3,990 Euros respectively. Seemed like decent value on the Mercedes, although I'm not sure what mileage it'd done nor what engine it had.
The Hyundai had done 238,000 kms but still looked tidy.
Pausing briefly for safeworking and for the crew to grab some tucker from the shop, S312, P16, T363 and S317 stand at Korong Vale with 9198 loaded SSR Allied grain from Nullawill to Kensington/Appleton Dock.
Korong Vale serves as the junction for the lines to Sea Lake and Managatang.
B74 leads the way with S313 and X31 assisting in an all VR cast as they charge North to Deniliquin NSW as 9071 empty containerized rice service seen here powering away from Harcourt.
Saturday 19th January 2013
One of the most amazing sights to grace South Australian Rails for quite a few years was the appearance of Southern Shorthaul Railroad's vintage bulldogs S317/GM27/GM10/S302, seen near Nectar Brook, on a wagon transfer from Port Augusta to New South Wales.
All four locos were in attendance at Streamliners 2016 in Goulburn, NSW just four weeks previous.
S317 and S302 are former Victorian Railway S class units while GM10 and GM27 were originally built for the Commonwealth railways. All are Clyde/EMD six-motor products with 567C donks, except GM10 which is only a four-motor unit with a 567BC.
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B61 leads fellow ex-Victorian locomotives S302, S317 and G514 towards Newnes Junction with 1877 SSR freight from Cooks River to Kelso. With the G Class only having recently returned to this service after a stint running grain trains for Westons Milling at Enfield, it was a notable event to get streamliners leading this train again, especially on a now uncommon daylight run west. It might have been less than desirable high summer sun, but one doesn't turn down the chance to chase a veteran like B61 on the mainline.
Anytime one of the bigger horses is sidelined or diverted to other duties, the veterans of SSRs mainline fleet prove that they're still just as able as when they were first introduced. The lead three locos have 172 years of service between them!
As an aside, this chase took the train and myself through no less than three severe thunderstorms, all moving from western NSW out to sea. The second storm can be seen behind the train.