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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.
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
Charging South towards Nagambie, X31 leads fellow vintage units T356, S303 and T386 towards Vic Dock as 9374 loaded container service from Tocumwal in Southern NSW.
Saturday 25th February 2017
Then freshly painted in new livery, S317 leads fellow veterans S302, GM22 and 44206 wrong road past Lithgow yard with train 1845.
In service dates of the four vary from 1957 (S302) to 1971 (44206)!
Car: Mercedes-Benz 420 SEL.
Year of manufacture: 1992.
Date of first registration in the UK: 2nd April 1992.
Place of registration: Portsmouth.
Date of last MOT: 5th February 2019.
Mileage at last MOT: 230,134.
Date of last V5 issued: 3rd June 2019.
Date taken: 12th February 2017.
Location: Queen Square, Bristol, UK.
The streamlined S-Class locomotives are finally finished (unless we modify them further)! I have been helping Teunis with them for the last couple of months. Teunis has built two locos (301 and 302) and I have built a third (303) to go with the non-streamlined S that I built last year.
The design of the boiler, cab, streamlining and tender are all Teunis’s. I designed the running gear including the 3D-printed rods, redesigned the nose, added details such as handrails, and made the stickers (gold vinyl).
The VR crest and lettering were hand drawn based on scanned photographs. Thanks Mike for the loan of the vinyl cutter. Where possible, Teunis has used chromed tiles on his locos. The gold on mine is all vinyl.
The locos are fitted with custom led lights powered by 4xAAA batteries inside the boiler. They are currently unpowered – they will be pushed by motors under the carriages. I may try to power mine through the tender in the future.
Four S Class locomotives were built by the Victorian Railways as express passenger locomotives in 1928. They were streamlined in 1937 with the introduction of the new Spirit of Progress between Melbourne and Albury on the New South Wales border.
S313 and G515 make their way towards Echuca through the former site of Kanyapella as a late running 9371 bound for Deniliquin in Southern NSW.
S301, T395 and S313 power up hill away from Maryborough as 8198 to Melbourne from Mildura
Monday 2nd November 2009
S3303 comes off the branch line from Dwellingup at Pinjarra with a loaded Alumina consist destined for Bunbury on 11-3-09
Restored Seymour Rail Heritage Centre locos S307,C501 have just arrived at Heywood station with a special passenger train for locals on 16-7-23.
The locos will run around and soon depart back for Portland
Repainted into the Pacific National Blue and Yellow scheme, S307 combines with preserved C501 in the Blue and Gold Victorian Railways scheme as the pull into Heywood station on a day trip special working from Portland to Hamilton and return on 15-7-23
Car: Mercedes-Benz 280 S.
Engine: 2778cc in-line 6.
Power: 160 BHP.
Fuel: Petrol.
Gears: 4 manual.
Body: 4 door saloon.
Layout: Front engine, rear wheel drive.
Length: 4,960 mm.
Width: 1,870 mm.
Height: 1,410 mm.
Weight: 1,520 kg.
Production dates: 1965 to 1972.
Production units: 364,669.
Assembly: Stuttgart, Germany.
Year of manufacture: 1969.
Date of first registration in the UK: 8th December 2015.
Place of registration: Nottingham.
Date of most recent MOT: 12th April 2017.
Mileage at last MOT: 36,943.
Date of last V5 issued: 13th May 2023.
Total number of keepers: 3.
Date taken: 7th May 2025.
Album: Carspotting 2025
B61, B65, S317 and GM10 cross the Parramatta River, heading for Meadowbank and can be seen cranking it up for the
ascent towards Hornsby on work train M822. Main North, NSW.
5th April, 2009.
SSRs 442s1, CLF3, S311 & C501 leading 5CM4, from Coolomon, NSW to Appleton Dock, VIC. Seen approaching McIntyre Loop, Sunshine North. 30/12/21
S302 leads GM10, 4917 and GM22 upgrade through the new Shellharbour Junction station with Sydney Trains loaded ballast train 9108, en route from Bombo Quarry to Chullora.
Although Sydney Trains infrastrucutre traffic is in the hands of Pacific National, SSR made three runs to/from the quarry in late June/early July 2015.
SSR streamlined Clyde/EMD diesel-electric units S317 and GM27 haul through Cowan early in the morning on 16th January 2013 with 4278 coal wagon transfer. The 16 PHTH coal wagons were being transferred to Bradken Engineering at Braemar for modifications.
Seymour Rail Heritage Centre's preserved locos S307,C501 stand ready to depart the Portland yard in the morning of 16-7-23 with the shuttle trip to Heywood and return