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NA 7A Upper Ferntree Gully
March 1958 P G Dow
7A at Newport c. 1959 Another NA in storage as well.
P G Dow 1959
Y at North Melbourne.
Ozbob13 (young lad) started very young ... lol
P G Dow c. 1956
Y108 October 1959 Probably North Melbourne
P G Dow
D4 267 4-6-2T c. 1954 Probably Newport
P G Dow
Young Ozbob13's favourite locomotive ..
E 371 Newport.
P G Dow c. 1954
K and NA (? 7A) at Upper Ferntree Gully c. 1957
P G Dow
R700 resting at Geelong after the sprint from Spencer Street.
February 1957
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A2 822 Geelong
Geelong Railway Centenary 29 June 1957
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Peechelba East D3 635
9 September 1959 P G Dow
ARHS Beech Forest ' Farwell Beechy ' tour 1960
Spencer Street prior to departure for Colac.
R724 I was 9 years old. I have very vivid memories of this trip.
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Colac shortly after arrival. Train for Beech Forest waits for the passengers.
P G Dow 1960
Colac.
1960 P G Dow
G Colac 1960
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On the way to Beech Forest. Around Wimba
1960 P G Dow
Train going around the tennis court at Beech Forest prior to the run out on the Crowes branch (closed from Weeaproinah). This reversed the train.
1960 P G Dow
Photo stop around Ferguson
P G Dow 1960
Ferguson station photograph from the train.
P G Dow 1960
Water at Gellibrand.
P G Dow 1960
Was a marvellous day.
1960 P G Dow
Peechelba East 1959 P G Dow
The was on an ARHS tour. Peechelba East.
That's me in the foreground with the over coat, shorts and bomber beanie
P G Dow 1959
We returned to Benalla and then to Oaklands.
PG Dow 1959
Oaklands.
P G Dow 1959
Oaklands.
P G Dow 1959
Same weekend we went to Bright. I think this is when we returned to Bowser. The line on the left is the Peechelba East branch, the line on the right to Bright. The centre is the mainline (north east). Bowser was just north of Wangaratta.
P G Dow 1959
Everton.
P G Dow 1959
Everton was on the Bright line. Everton was the junction station for the Yackandandah line
Bright.
P G Dow 1959
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