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1 FOR ALL WHO ARe INTeReSTeD IN RAI LWAYS Official newsletter of the Australian Railway Historical Society (NSW Division) Editor: Ross Verdich Issue: September 2012 September 2012 Sat 1 RRC open. S/hand book sale at Redfern 10am to 3pm Tue 4 RRC open. S/hand book sale at Redfern Noon to 3pm Wed 5 Annual General Meeting: Chinese Coal Railway DVD Sat 8 ARHS Railway Resource Centre open Tue 11 ARHS Railway Resource Centre open Tue 11 Newcastle Members Meeting: Gary Hughes - Broken Hill Sat 15 ARHS Railway Resource Centre open Tue 18 ARHS Railway Resource Centre open Wed 19 Luncheon Club - Otford Station Sat 22 ARHS Railway Resource Centre open Tue 25 ARHS Railway Resource Centre open Sat 29 ARHS Railway Resource Centre open Sat 29 AMRA 50th Anniversary Model Exhibition Liverpool Sun 30 AMRA 50th Anniversary Model Exhibition Liverpool Notice The ARHSnsw 2012 Annual Report is now available for viewing and download on the Society s website: October 2012 Mon 1 AMRA 50th Anniversary Model Exhibition Liverpool Tue 2 RRC open. S/hand book sale at Redfern Noon to 4pm Wed 3 Members Meeting: Gary Hughes - Broken Hill Sat 6 RRC open. S/hand book sale at Redfern 10am to 3pm Tue 9 ARHS Railway Resource Centre open Tue 9 Newcastle Members Meeting: Mike Moy - Train Operations Sat 13 ARHS Railway Resource Centre open Tue 16 ARHS Railway Resource Centre open Wed 17 Luncheon Club - Emu Plains Station Sat 20 Tour to Kandos to celebrate 50 Year-old 4501 Sat 20 ARHS Railway Resource Centre open Tue 23 ARHS Railway Resource Centre open Sat 27 ARHS Railway Resource Centre open Sat/Sun 27/28 Tour to Cooma with Rail Motor Society Tue 30 ARHS Railway Resource Centre open Sept 19: Oct 17: Forthcoming tours Railway Luncheon Club Otford Station Railway Luncheon Club Emu Plains Station October 20: Kandos celebrate 4501 s 50th year (Booking form attached.) October 27/28: Cooma with Rail Motor Society (Booking form attached.) November 25: From Goulburn with 3016T (Booking form attached.) More info call Tours Hotline number (02) Sydney meetings: Newcastle meetings: Bookshop: Rail Resource Centre: Administration and Mail Order: Members meetings are held in Sydney on the first Wednesday of the month. Meetings commence 6.30pm (seating available from 6pm) Members meetings are held in Newcastle on the second Tuesday of each month at 7.30pm. Monday to Friday: 9am to 5.30pm Saturday: 9am to 4pm Tuesdays: 12pm to 4pm Saturdays: 10am to 3pm Phone: Fax: sbo@arhsnsw.com.au resources@arhsnsw.com.au (Ph and fax: , please note requests not taken by phone) Phone: Fax: mail@arhsnsw.com.au At the Mitchell Room, 1st floor, Sydney Mechanics School of Arts, 280 Pitt St, Sydney (between Park & Bathurst Sts) At the New Lambton Community Centre, cnr Alma Rd and Cromwell St, New Lambton The bookshop is located at Rail Heritage Central on the Concourse of Sydney Central Station 67 Renwick Street, Redfern, NSW, 2016 (only during advertised opening times) 67 Renwick Street, Redfern, NSW, 2016 (no general access by appointment only) Tours: As advertised Infoline: or Page 1

2 AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY NSW DIVISION members Newsletter Railway luncheon Club F eastwood rom as far afield as Canberra, Junee, Newcastle and of course Sydney, over 40 members and friends came to Eastwood on Wed 15 August to see what this busy station has to offer those with an interest in railway history. Originally called Dundas, Eastwood was opened as a small standard timber roadside station on 17 September 1886, concurrent with the opening of the railway between Strathfield and Hornsby. The station name was changed to Eastwood on 1 September 1887, taking this name from the nearby property Eastwood House, built in 1840 by William Rutledge. This property was acquired by Edward Terry in 1863 and the house remains as part of Marist Brothers School. Both Rutledge s and Terry s names are perpetuated in Rutledge Street with its railway overbridge and Terrys Creek running under the lines at the station. Led by our three guides, the group saw the platform faces showing a mixture of styles and construction periods, the sites of the various buildings, including the overhead booking office, track changes over the years, former railway residences and the details of three nearby accidents. Eastwood s Platform 3 looking south. A V Set has stopped in Platform 1. Image: Ray Pickard Looking north along Eastwood s Platform 3 as Waratah Set A8 departs. Image: Ray Pickard The newer, and non-standard, platform awnings built in 2009 have obliterated all traces of the former buildings. Our thanks go to Ian Wallace and Stephen Halgren for their assistance, and to others in the group who had some special association with Eastwood. A special thanks also to the acting SM Chris, who not only welcomed the group to her station, but accompanied us for the entire tour the first time a Railcorp officer has done so. On completion of the tour, we adjourned to the adjacent art-deco Eastwood Hotel for lunch. The next Luncheon Club outing is to Otford on Wednesday 19 September Catch the 9.03am Dapto intercity service from Central, which is due at Otford at 10.07am. After completion of the tour, catch the 11.16am train from Otford to Sutherland for lunch at the Royal Hotel. This outing will be led by John Oakes. The notes for Otford are now available on the ARHSnsw website. On 17 October, Nev Pollard will be showing us Emu Plains, and in November we will be going to the Gosford Electrical Depot. Gary Hughes our second-hand book sale is now held every month on the 1st Saturday & 1st tuesday ( Next on Saturday 1 September 10am to 3pm & Tuesday 4 September 12pm to 3pm) redfern Australian & Overseas Books from $1 to $999! Page 2

3 AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY NSW DIVISION members Newsletter AUGUST Members meeting Guest Speaker Our guest speaker was once again Ed Tonks who is well known in railway circles as a book author, speaker and tour guide. Ed bought along his 35mm slides of the closed Adamstown to Belmont line. His book Adamstown via Fernleigh was published by the NSWRTM in 1988 and is now out of print and much sought after. He is looking to republish his book, this time including the last train workings and the line and infrastructure at closure. Following the closure of Lambton Colliery at Redhead, the last operating pit in the area in late 1991, the Belmont line was closed from 19 December However, passenger services ceased completely on 8 April From August 1965, 48 Class diesel locomotives took over from the steam engines on the coal trains, however there were brief periods when steam returned because of a shortage of diesel motive power. Later, 47 Class diesels worked the line and were the preferred power over the 48 Class as the later had a propensity to derail on a particular section of the line. Ed s slides included these workings and he was able to photograph the very last trains to run including some unusual combinations bought about by locomotive failures. Although 44 and 45 Class were authorised to work the line, images of them working are rare but Ed managed to photograph a 45 Class! The new edition will feature additional images including some of the slides shown at the meeting. Ed s new edition will complete the coverage of the Belmont line s history. We look forward to seeing the book when it is published. George Gettens thanked Ed for yet another thoroughly entertaining lecture. New ARHSnsw Members 3495 Brian MADDEN Kingsgrove NSW 4657 Jeremy PORTZER Pyrmont NSW 5058 Roger CANTWELL Dolls Point NSW 5059 Michael THORTON Marsfield NSW 5060 Rory HOLDSWORTH Buxton VIC 5061 John BURSTON Kambah ACT 5062 Mark TURNER Frenchs Forest NSW 5063 Geoffrey LANGRIDGE Ambarvale NSW 5064 William COOPER Cheltenham NSW 5065 Edward KLIM Phillip ACT 5066 Michael JENSEN Wentworth Falls NSW 5067 Clive DAVIS Saratoga NSW 5068 Geoffrey CALLIGHAM Umina Beach NSW 5069 Neil RECKORD Armidale NSW VOLUNTEERS WANTED FOR RRC Intranet Project Volunteers Wanted Further assistance is sought to enable the Railway Resource Centre to continue with scanning and indexing of the STN collection. There are two aspects for which we seek the help of members. Scanner Work at Redfern using a flat-bed scanner. Some basic computer skill necessary together with experience with either scanning or photo-copying. Attendance for 4+ hours at least once a week is desirable. Indexing This can be carried out in member s home using his/her PC. Apart from basic computer skill, some understanding of HTML coding would be an advantage, but training from basic word-processing knowledge will be provided. Completed files will need to be brought to the ARHS and the next project collected. applications to: glillico@arhsnsw.com.au FOR REDFERN DATABASES Volunteer(s) with computer programming skills Our NSW President George Gettens would like to meet a volunteer with computer programming skills that could provide backup for the work he does. We have a number of purpose designed programs for searching our photo database, maintaining certain financial records, subscription information and general RRC processing. We use Microsoft Access with VBA code behind it, but any member with general programming experience would quickly catch onto what we do. Please phone and ask for Ross or Grahame at Redfern if you are willing to help George maintain and develop the software used at Redfern. applications to: rossverdi@arhsnsw.com.au AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY NSW DIVISION FOR ALL WHO ARE INTERESTED IN RAILWAYS Page 3

4 AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY NSW DIVISION A PASSENGER TRAIN to KANDOS & Celebrate 50 year-old 4501 A Saturday 20 October 2012 ccredited NSW heritage groups 3801 Limited, ARHSnsw Division, ARHS ACT Division and The Rail Motor Society have been given the opportunity by John Holland (with the company s offer) to open the line from Charbon to Kandos to run another train to Kandos Station on Saturday 20 October Following the closure of the Kandos Cement works, the line from Charbon Loop to Kandos was closed for traffic. Additionally, 4501 celebrated 50 years of service on 2 June 2012 and we have the opportunity to celebrate this milestone with Alco Diesel Electric locomotive 4501 attached to 4833 and a 44 Class to haul the special heritage train. Come and join us for this nostalgic trip to Kandos on the truncated Mudgee line. The all-alco diesel-hauled heritage train departs Sydney around 7.30am. Our carriage will be an XFS compartment car allowing wide-open windows. Morning tea is included as you enjoy and admire the scenery as the train surmounts the Blue Mountains. At Wallerawang, we take the branch line onwards through the magnificent Capertee Valley where a photo stop at Brogans Creek will be made to admire and take in the local environment. Following our arrival, expected around 1.00pm, lunch will be provided at a local Kandos establishment and is included with the ticket payment. Other places like the Kandos Museum is just one attraction to check out during our visit to this quaint little town. The train will pick up at Strathfield, Parramatta, Blacktown and Penrith. The return journey is expected to conclude at Sydney at 8.30pm. (Image: Shane O Neil) BOOKING FORM for 20 October 2012 Kandos Tour Mail to: ARHSnsw Tours or fax (02) Pay at: ARHSnsw Bookshop PO Box 4083 Rail Heritage Centre EDGEWORTH, NSW, 2285 SYDNEY CENTRAL STATION Reserve...Seats ARHSnsw Members & Guests incl. morning tea & $ $.. 2% Credit Card Payment Surcharge $... TOTAL (GST Incl.) $ Name... Address...Postcode... Telephone (home)... (mobile)...membership No.... Name of accompanying person(s)... I/we will join the train at...station PREFERRED PAYMENT BY CHEQUE/MONEY ORDER/CASH for $... Or please DEBIT my VISA or MASTERCARD (add 2% surcharge to payment) Card No....Expiry.../...(Add 2% above) Signature...Date... Tickets and timetable confirmation will be posted to your address 10 days before departure. ARHSnsw Tours Infoline (02) or or destination ARHSnsw (ABN ) is not responsible for last minute changes to train, route or destination by the train operator. Refunds: up to 30 days prior 100 %; less than 30 days to 7 days 90 %; less than 7 days NO REFUND OFFICE USE ONLY: Date booking rec d...date processed...seats...car...tickets sent... Page 4

5 AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY NSW DIVISION COOMA Weekend 27 & 28 October 2012 Come along on a spring time adventure with The Rail Motor Society s CPH Rail Motors to Canberra, Coach to Cooma and travel to Chakola and return on CPH s 8 & 22 with CTH 55 on the Cooma Monaro Railway. The CPH s will depart Paterson at 5am and will pick-up as required en-route to North Strathfield for an 8am departure. Then travel via the Main South to Goulburn for a short stop before continuing on the branch for a 1pm arrival in Canberra. Lunch will be served in the Canberra Station precincts before joining our coach to enjoy the spring scenery whilst travelling down the Monaro Highway to Cooma. On arrival at Cooma Railway Station, we will be greeted by the members of the Cooma Monaro Railway. Following an inspection of the station and other exhibits, join CPH s 8 & 22 and CTH 55 for an afternoon tea run to Chakola and return. Proceed then to the Marlborough Motel for our dinner, bed & breakfast overnight accommodation. Depart after breakfast on Sunday morning for the return coach trip to Canberra. Depart for Goulburn in the CPHs where we will shunt into the Goulburn Loco Roundhouse Preservation Society for a BBQ lunch and inspection of exhibits. Depart Goulburn for the return to North Strathfield where we are due to arrive at 6.30pm. The tour cost includes all rail travel, lunches, dinner, bed & breakfast, accommodation on a twin share basis with limited single supplement available and on-board morning and afternoon teas. Items of a personal nature and drinks at the motels are at your own expense. BOOKING FORM for 27 & 28 October 2012 Cooma Tour Mail to: ARHSnsw Tours or fax (02) Pay at: ARHSnsw Bookshop PO Box 4083 Rail Heritage Centre EDGEWORTH, NSW, 2285 SYDNEY CENTRAL STATION Please reserve for me... Seats ARHSnsw Members and Guests Twin $ $..... Seats Non Members Twin $ $.. Limited Single $ $.. 2% Credit Card Payment Surcharge $... TOTAL (GST Incl.) $.... Name... Address...Postcode... Telephone (home)... (mobile)...membership No.... Name of accompanying person(s)... I/we will join the train at...station I require double...twin share...accomodation PREFERRED PAYMENT BY CHEQUE/MONEY ORDER/CASH for $... Or please DEBIT my VISA or MASTERCARD (add 2% surcharge to payment) Card No....Expiry.../...(Add 2% above) Signature...Date... Tickets, timetable and accomodation confirmation will be posted to your address 10 days before departure. ARHSnsw Tours Infoline (02) or or destination ARHSnsw (ABN ) is not responsible for last minute changes to train, route or destination by the train operator. Refunds: up to 30 days prior 100 %; less than 30 days to 7 days 90 %; less than 7 days NO REFUND OFFICE USE ONLY: Date booking rec d...date processed...seats...car...tickets sent... Page 5

6 AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY NSW DIVISION A STEAM PASSENGER TRAIN FROM GOULBURN WITH 3016T Sunday 25 November 2012 Heritage operator 3801 Ltd is looking after the ARHS ACT Division s steam locomotive 3016T over the forthcoming summer season. In order to transfer the locomotive to Sydney a tour has been arranged and ARHSnsw Division is taking part. 3016T will depart Canberra on Saturday 24 November and will steam to Goulburn where it will stable overnight at the Goulburn Roundhouse Museum. On Sunday 3801 Ltd will haul a train of heritage passenger cars to Goulburn with a diesel-electric locomotive and return to Sydney with 3016T hauling the train. Don t miss this opportunity to travel behind steam from Goulburn to Sydney in a XFS Compartment Car with windows you can open to once again enjoy the sounds and smells of a steam hauled train. Don t forget that daylight saving is in place! The train will depart Central at 7.55am. Morning tea will be available from the buffet car and is included in your fare. Arrival in Goulburn is due at 11.40am and there will be a two-hour break for you to purchase lunch in the nearby club or from the shopping area or enjoy your own picnic lunch in the magnificent park located near the station. Our steam-hauled train is tabled to depart Goulburn at 1.50pm for the return trip to Sydney and is due at Central at approximately 6.00pm. Look for further steam hauled excursions with 3016T being arranged to operate in the forthcoming months. Image: Graeme Stanley BOOKING FORM for 25 November 2012 Goulburn 3016T Tour Mail to: ARHSnsw Tours or fax (02) Pay at: ARHSnsw Bookshop PO Box 4083 Rail Heritage Centre EDGEWORTH, NSW, 2285 SYDNEY CENTRAL STATION Please reserve for me...seats ARHSnsw Members & Guests incl. morning $ $.....A Family Group ticket (2 adults & 2 $ $.....Additional $ $.... 2% Credit Card Payment Surcharge $... TOTAL (GST Incl.) $ Name... Address...Postcode... Telephone (home)... (mobile)...membership No.... Name of accompanying person(s)... I/we will join the train at...station PREFERRED PAYMENT BY CHEQUE/MONEY ORDER/CASH for $... Or please DEBIT my VISA or MASTERCARD (add 2% surcharge to payment) Card No....Expiry.../...(Add 2% above) Signature...Date... Tickets and timetable confirmation will be posted to your address 10 days before departure. Infoline (02) or or destination ARHSnsw (ABN ) is not responsible for last minute changes to train, route or destination by the train operator. Refunds: up to 30 days prior 100 %; less than 30 days to 7 days 90 %; less than 7 days NO REFUND OFFICE USE ONLY: Date booking rec d...date processed...seats...car...tickets sent... Page 6