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In 1978, the two cars were returned to broad gauge, and took on the numbers No. 15 Sleeper (ex 1VAC) and No. 16 Sleeper (ex 2VAC) following on from Sleepers 1 to 10 (ex E type carriages) and Sleepers 11 to 14 (ex V&SAR Overland Carriages), for operation on The Vinelander service to Mildura. By 1982 they had been internally refitted as full ...
The Jarrahdale to Mundijong section was retained longer, finally ceasing operations in November 1962, after 90 years. This made it the longest-operating timber railway in Western Australia. [1] A new railway line, to transport bauxite from Jarrahdale to Kwinana, was built to replace the timber railway and follows the old line in many places. [1]
Interest in concrete railway sleepers increased after World War II following advances in the design, quality and production of pre-stressed concrete. Chaired bullhead concrete sleepers have been around since at least the 1940s; the Great Western using a two-holed chair, thus saving both scarce wartime timber and steel fixing bolts. [4]
A railroad tie, crosstie (American English), railway tie (Canadian English) or railway sleeper (Australian and British English) is a rectangular support for the rails in railroad tracks. Generally laid perpendicular to the rails, ties transfer loads to the track ballast and subgrade , hold the rails upright and keep them spaced to the correct ...
Hopetown Carriage Works, also known as the Stockton and Darlington Railway Carriage Works, was a carriage works of the Stockton and Darlington Railway built in 1853 in Hopetown, near Darlington, County Durham, England. The works built railway carriages from 1853 to around 1884. Now preserved, it is still used as a museum workshop.
Locomotives from the National Collection in the Great Hall of the UK National Railway Museum. The UK National Collection is a collection of around 280 historic rail vehicles (predominantly of British origin). The majority of the collection is kept at four national museums: National Railway Museum, York; Locomotion, Shildon
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway: 6 500–505 Lounge 1950 Pleasure Dome: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: 2 5550–5551 Lounge 1949 Strata-Dome: Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad: 10 50–59 Lounge 1952 Super Dome: General Motors: 1 Coach 1947 General Motors: 1 Diner 1947 General Motors: 1 Lounge 1947 General Motors: 1 Sleeper 1947
The Civic Trust said it was built by the Great North of England Railway and dated from 1841, which is when that line opened. [8] However, an alternative view is that it was a two-road engine shed, big enough to house four of the first main line steam engines, built by the Newcastle & Darlington Junction Railway when it opened in 1844. [9]