Thread by @ozbob13

Toolamba–Echuca railway is a 5' 3" gauge cross-country rail link between the towns of Toolamba and Echuca.
Toolamba - Tatura open1880
Tatura - Echuca open 1887
Provides an alternative to the usual route via Bendigo for Echuca & Deniliquin.
vrhistory.com/VRMaps/Vic1930…

Toolamba - Echuca - Deniliquin 1928 timetable
victorianrailways.net/timetables/192…

Toolamba Railway Station c. 1920
Museums Victoria Collections collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/796050

Toolamba track signal diagram 1915
victorianrailways.net/signaling/comp…

RAILWAY YARDS TOOLAMBA WITH BAGGED ON TRUCKS AND EX GEELONG AND MELBOURNE RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVE No.36 - Public Record Office Vic wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…
No. 36 built Robert Stephenson Eng. 1855.
Was a 2-2-2T acquired by VR in 1860, sold in 1889.
Not dated but probably c. 1880.

This is No 34, which was the same as No. 36 originally named Oberon. No 34 ran on the Koondrook tramway for a while. Probably hauled the first trains on the tramway.
Museums Victoria Collections collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/1595373

STEAM TRAIN ON RAILWAY BRIDGE OVER GOULBURN RIVER, TOOLAMBA CIRCA 1910 - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…
Loco is possibly R (old) class

TOOLAMBA 1893 - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…
What a cracker of a photograph!
Locomotive is a F 2-4-0 most built Phoenix Ballarat 1876-9.

Tatura Railway Station c. 1910
victoriancollections.net.au/items/545225f8…
Loco is possibly R (new) class 0-6-0

BRILL RAIL MOTOR RM44
DERAILED UPSIDE BYRNESIDE 10-4-1949 - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…
RM 44 constructed by the South Australian Brill company in the late 1920's. Only Brill RM VR had. Was written off after this derailment.

Welcome Home from World War I,
Merrigum Railway Station c. 1915-20
Museums Victoria Collections collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/764937

Merrigum Railway Station c. 1910s
Museums Victoria Collections collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/765036

Kyabram 1908
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Loco R class (new) 0-6-0

A mixed train to Echuca waiting at Kyabram Railway Station c. 1915
Museums Victoria Collections collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/795770

A crowd at the Kyabram Railway station welcomes home 391B Private (Pte) David Menzies and his new wife, Emily Edith Menzies (nee Pringle). 1919
@AWMemorial awm.gov.au/collection/C21…

RAILWAY STATION TONGALA EARLY 1900's - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…

Class P No. 3 Deniliquin-Echuca.Train at Tongala.
1st April 1902
slv.vic.gov.au/pictoria/gid/s…
Rare photograph. P 0-6-0 No. 3 was built by Beyer Peacock 1860. Rebuilt early 1900s.
Last of class scrapped 1921. This loco appears to have been rebuilt.

ECHUCA RAILWAY STATION - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…
c. 1910
R 329 0-6-0 built Phoenix Ballarat c. 1885

Kyabram Looking towards Echuca
Weston Langford 21 December 1994
westonlangford.com/images/photo/1…
Last passenger service from Echuca along the Toolamba–Echuca line ran on 2 Mar 1981. Goods movements on the line were intermittent. Booked out of service a number of times. Re-opened 2013.

'Mulder reopens Echuca-Toolamba rail line'
ABC Thu 3 Oct 2013
abc.net.au/news/2013-10-0…

Video:
Reopening Toolamba to Echuca - QUBE Deniliquin Freight

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On closer inspection the loco is probably a D class.