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Today S class 4-6-2 3 cylinders
300 Matthew Flinders
301 Sir Thomas Mitchell
302 Edward Henty
303 C J Latrobe
Built Newport 1928-33
All scrapped ~ 1954.
Built for trains on NE line.
Streamlined 1936-38 for Spirit of Progress
S300 c. 1928
wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…
S CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE No.303 ON SYDNEY LIMITED - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS… c. 1930s
The S class considered by many as VR's finest.
Real tragedy they were all scrapped.
S CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE S300 FIREMAN SIDE VIEW CIRCA 1928 - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…
S CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE No.302 ON TRAIN UP SYDNEY LIMITED ??? POSSIBLE BROADMEADOWS - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS… c. 1930s
S CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE No.303 SHOWING SMOKE DEFLECTORS LOCATION NORTH MELBOURNE LOCO - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…
S CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE No.300 ON TRAIN DEPARTING SPENCER STREET SYDNEY LIMITED ??? - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…
Magnificent! Yes, that would be the Sydney Ltd.
S CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE UNDER CONSTRUCTION NEWPORT WORKSHOPS CIRCA 1928 - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…
We could do many things once hey? Maybe this COVID-19 will teach us we need do many things once more ...
I can only hope .....
STREAMLINED S CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE ON SPIRIT OF PROGRESS AT ALBURY. SIGNAL BOX IN FOREGROUND. 36 CLASS LOCOMOTIVE ON THE SYDNEY EXPRESS AND A2 CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE No.948 AND 26 CLASS SADDLE TANK IN BACKGROUND - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…
17 NOVEMBER 1937 S CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE No.302 EDWARD HENTY STEAM SPIRIT OF PROGRESS COLOUR - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…
VIEW OF SPIRIT OF PROGRESS ON CURVE WITH PERSONNEL. S CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE MATHEW FLINDERS S300 - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…
MARCH 1947 S CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE STREAM LINED HAULING THE SPIRIT OF PROGRESS GLENROWAN - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…
'Don't go to Glenrowan Ned, they will get you if you do .. '
Interesting photograph. Description at library is not correct. However mixture of steel SOP cars with wooden cars is unusual.
wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…
S CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVES Nos 300 301 302 PERSPECTIVE VIEW CIRCA LATE 1920'S - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…
Southbound Spirit of Progress hauled by locomotive S303, C.J. Latrobe
nla.gov.au/nla.obj-155066…
TRAIN CREW BESIDE S CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…
Locomotive S301, Sir Thomas Mitchell, hauling a north east goods train, Beveridge, Victoria, 5 April 1952
nla.gov.au/nla.obj-155063…
Poor S, consigned to fast goods & then scrapped.
Some more on S 4-6-2 at victorianrailways.net railbotforum.org/yourls/7
Farewell the mighty S Class !
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