ROLL 1. Menzies Creek & Newport Workshops, May 1965.

All photos © Les Brown. Not to be used for Publication.

1-1. Climax. Menzies Creek.

1-2. Menzies Creek.

1-3. Menzies Creek.

1-4. E369. Newport Workshops. This engine is now preserved at the A.R.H.S. Railway Museum, North Williamstown.

1-5. E371. Newport Workshops. Derelict it is but not as bad as some. This engine was actually put back in to service as a workshops shunter when they retired another E-class (E377), which was in even worse condition. It was the last E-class in service when it was withdrawn 18 months earlier from shunting duties at Ballarat on 15^th November 1963.

1-6. D³619. Newport Workshops.

1-7. N410. Newport Workshops. After the closure of North Melbourne Locomotive Depot in January 1965, any steam engines that were worked to Melbourne, as N410 did here for a fan trip, were stored at the Workshops.

1-8. A²884. Newport Workshops.

1-9. R743. Newport Workshops.

1-10. l-r; A²884, R757, R758, R7??’s. Newport Workshops. Between the time A²884 was last used as a steam washout boiler engine at North Melbourne Locomotive Depot (it was actually one of the last engines to leave the depot) and preservation at the North Williamstown Railway Museum, it spent some time in this line up.

1-11. l-r; R743 & R7??’s. Newport Workshops.

1-12. R757 & R758. Newport Workshops.

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