ROLL 22. Diamond Valley
Railway, Eltham, 2nd July 1967. Glenroy, 4th July 1967.
All photos © Les Brown. Not to be used
for Publication.
Scanned
Negatives
22-1. Syd
Gillies driving.
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22-9. Note the boiler of the
club’s first live-steam engine, No.12 on the left.
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22-16. At
the old Clubhouse. After the day’s running, the members sit around to chat,
count the day’s takings and discuss all the day’s activities. The Clubhouse was
an old tin shed, so cold in winter any form of heating was irrelevant, and
stiflingly hot in summer made worse by the mosquitoes which made opening any
windows or doors unthinkable. You had to be dedicated.
22-19. X35. Glenroy.
Down Albury/Shepparton Pass.
22-20. R749. Glenroy.
It was an all air-conditioned carriage fan-trip.
22-21. Glenroy. Note the GY wagon far
centre-right. There were a few sidings at this location and unusually, the only
wagon turntables, which were just large enough to hold a four-wheeled wagon, I had
ever seen in Victoria. They were once a common feature on early railways, their
purpose was to move wagons on to track at too sharp an angle to be accessed by
points.