Australian Railway History Magazine April 2018 Sonderausgabe

Frank Mitchell opens the April Australian Railway History with his account of Daniel Gooch’s role in the design of locomotives for the Geelong & Melbourne Railway Company in Victoria. The company went into liquidation and was taken over by the Victorian Railways in 1860. Ron Webb presents Part 2 of his experience on the footplate of steam locomotive 3820 which headed Garratt No. 6037 from Gosford to Broadmeadow on 18 August 1970, backed by images of these locomotives in action.
Neville Pollard documents the inferno at the Atlantic Fuel depot at Walgett caused by a goods train failing to stop and setting a tank wagon loaded with petrol alight on 3 September 1960. Col Gilbertson’s account of the change-over from steam to diesel locomotives on the branch lines in the Temora District in the late 1960s‒early 1970s rounds off the issue.