ROLL
24. Newport Workshops & Geelong, 30th
July 1967.
All photos © Les Brown. Not
to be used for Publication.
24-1. R735 on the left,
others unknown. Newport Workshops. Awaiting scrapping. This was the usual scene
that greeted me upon arrival at the Workshops. It was usually a Sunday, as this
day was, when I would try to sneak in. And just as usually, I would have about
an hour before I was discovered by a security guard and escorted off the
premises. If I took a day off work and wandered around the Workshops, I
wouldn’t have any problems, I could go almost anywhere unimpeded – even get a
ride on one of the E-class steam shunting locos or on my favourite, No. 4 Steam
Crane with it’s very English steam whistle.
24-2. J536, J527 and
R?. Newport Workshops.
24-3. J536, J527. Newport
Workshops.
24-4. R?, K150 & K149.
Newport Workshops.
24-5. J? , J521 & J?
Newport Workshops.
24-6. A2 986, and
various tenders, the last two are X-class tenders. Newport Workshops.
24-7. J?, D3? & A2 986.
Newport Workshops.
24-8. R?, K150 & K149.
Newport Workshops.
24-9. R-class locos awaiting
scrapping. Newport Workshops. I’ve been caught, but I’ve managed a parting
shot.
24-10. Tait/Swing door.
Newport Station. This was the Newport-Altona shuttle in the days when trains
from Flinders St, usually originating at Dandenong or Frankston, ran through to
Williamstown or occasionally, Williamstown Pier. Flinders St – Altona trains
only ran during peak periods and never on weekends.
24-11. B78. Newport Station.
Fellow gunzel, Andrew Cook, watches me snap a “quickie” as the train to Geelong
rolls in. That’s my old blue vinyl bag in the corner dropped in haste to take
the shot.
24-12. R711. Geelong Loco.
24-13. T405. Geelong Loco.
It was almost brand-new here.
24-14. l-r; K154, J524 K187,
J518, J502, K176. Geelong Loco.
24-15. J518, J502 &
K178. Geelong Loco.
24-16. l-r; J518, J502, K178
& K176. Geelong Loco.
24-17. K187 & J524.
Geelong Loco.
24-18. K178 & J502, with
F213, W?, & W? on the other side of the turntable. Geelong Loco.
24-19. K176. Geelong Loco.
24-20. K154, J524 &
K187. Geelong Loco.