Australian Railway History Magazine

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We are staying on the North Coast Line of NSW with a wonderful article supplied from Garry Kahler from a trip during the 1977/78 years to Coffs Harbour. Lots of first generation power was in use on the line just as the stickers of the PTC had been applied over the locos in NSWGR livery. The contrast is quite stunning as the trains come through the banana plantations and carry out good trains operations before the yard closed in 1996.
We also get a little architectural with a look at the NSW Two-Storey Railway Houses that were built to accommodate railway staff during the second half of the nineteenth century. Most railway two-storey houses followed architectural styles of the Victorian period with some brilliant examples still seen around the tracks.
Western Australian Government Railways never went to close to Alcos before but with the awarding of this contract for the soon to be N Class, it was a complete departure from the past locomotive buying practices of the WAGR. The WAGR had entered the diesel locomotive era in the 1950s with locomotives sourced from British builders. In the 1960s the focus for main and branch line locomotives shifted to a mix of Clyde Engineering/General Motors EMD and Australian built English Electric units. It was an experiment to say the least!

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