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Site of the derailment of the Broken Hill Express (222 Up) due to buckled track caused by heat. 400 Class locomotive 408, December 27 1960, 1.45 am. Engineman Harry Viney was killed in the accident.
Site of the derailment of the Broken Hill Express (222 Up) due to buckled track caused by heat. 400 Class locomotive 408, December 27 1960, 1.45 am. Engineman Harry Viney was killed in the accident.
Site of the derailment of the Broken Hill Express (222 Up) due to buckled track caused by heat. 400 Class locomotive 408, December 27 1960, 1.45 am. Engineman Harry Viney was killed in the accident.
Site of the derailment of the Broken Hill Express (222 Up) due to buckled track caused by heat. 400 Class locomotive 408, December 27 1960, 1.45 am. Engineman Harry Viney was killed in the accident.
Paratoo narrow gauge yard, 1957. Note the overhead tank and the original type ‘on’ bogie ore vehicles.
406 Class locomotive at Paratoo, 1965. Photo by A. Grumbach.
Signal control levers in the Paratoo narrow gauge signal cabin, 1972
Paratoo signal cabin showing staff instrument, party phone and control phone (right), 1967
Paratoo signal cabin with the electric staff to the left, 1967
830 Class locomotives 856 and 859 shunting at Paratoo, c. 1960s
Temporary standard gauge loco shed and 600 Class locomotive 601 at Paratoo 1967. Photo by A. Grumbach.
Paratoo railway yard looking west, 1967. Photo by A. Grumbach.
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