
Pirinari, the first steam train from Sydney to Whyalla, October 1972. NSW C38 Class locomotive and NSW 36 Class locomotive 3642. Cabin of 3642. Photo by M Billett.

Pirinari, the first steam train from Sydney to Whyalla, October 1972. NSW C38 Class locomotive and NSW 36 Class locomotive 3642. Cabin of 3642. Photo by M Billett.

Pirinari, the first steam train from Sydney to Whyalla, October 1972. NSW C38 Class locomotive and NSW 36 Class locomotive 3642. Cabin of 3642. Photo by M Billett.

Pirinari Whyalla, the first steam train from Sydney to Whyalla, October 1972. Peterborough station. Photo by M Billett.

Pirinari Whyalla, the first steam train from Sydney to Whyalla, October 1972. Photo by M Billett.

Pirinari Whyalla, the first steam train from Sydney to Whyalla, October 1972. Photo by M Billett.

Pirinari Whyalla, the first steam train from Sydney to Whyalla, October 1972. Peterborough fireman Bain Sims. Photo by M Billett.

Pirinari Whyalla, the first steam train from Sydney to Whyalla, October 1972. Jack Sparks, Lionel Noble, Gil Bradshaw. Photo by M Billett.

Pirinari Whyalla, the first steam train from Sydney to Whyalla, October 1972. Peterborough engineman Peter Smallacombe and fireman Bain Sims. Photo by M Billett.

Pirinari Whyalla, the first steam train from Sydney to Whyalla, October 1972. NSW steam locomotives at Port Pirie loco depot. Photo by M Billett.

Pirinari Whyalla, the first steam train from Sydney to Whyalla, October 1972. Peterborough engineman Peter Smallacombe. Photo by M Billett.

Pirinari Whyalla, the first steam train from Sydney to Whyalla, October 1972. Peterborough engineman Frank Olsen and maintenance engineer Ian Domelo. Photo by M Billett.

Pirinari Whyalla, the first steam train from Sydney to Whyalla, October 1972. Peterborough engineman Peter Smallacombe and fireman Bain Sims. Photo by M Billett.

Pirinari Whyalla, the first steam train from Sydney to Whyalla, October 1972. Peterborough maintenance engineer Ian Domelo, engineman Frank Olsen and fireman Bain Sims. Photo by M Billett.

Pirinari Whyalla, the first steam train from Sydney to Whyalla, October 1972. Peterborough fireman Bain Sims and engineman Peter Smallacombe. Photo by M Billett.

Pirinari Whyalla, the first steam train from Sydney to Whyalla, October 1972. Peterborough engineman Peter Smallacombe, __?, Bain Sims. Photo by M Billett.

Pirinari Whyalla, the first steam train from Sydney to Whyalla, October 1972. Photo by M Billett.

Pirinari Whyalla, the first steam train from Sydney to Whyalla, October 1972. Peterborough enginemen Max Twigden and Gordon Jeffs. Photo by M Billett.

Pirinari Whyalla, the first steam train from Sydney to Whyalla, October 1972. Peterborough engineman Colin Taylor. Photo by M Billett.

Pirinari Whyalla, the first steam train from Sydney to Whyalla, October 1972. Photo by M Billett.

Pirinari Whyalla, the first steam train from Sydney to Whyalla, October 1972. Peterborough engineman Gordon Jeffs. Photo by M Billett.

Pirinari Whyalla, the first steam train from Sydney to Whyalla, October 1972. Photo by M Billett.

Pirinari Whyalla, the first steam train from Sydney to Whyalla, October 1972. Retired Peterborough railway men inspecting the locomotive: Jack Wagner, Ted Victory, Jack Rankine, Ray Ayliffe, Len Richards, Jim Clancy, Austin Victory. Photo by Mrs D Hunt.

Pirinari Whyalla, the first steam train from Sydney to Whyalla, October 1972. Retired Peterborough railway men inspecting the locomotive: L to R: Dick Hicks, Len Richards, Ted Victory, Jim Clancy, Austin Victory, Tim Jenkins. Photo by M Billett.

Pirinari Whyalla, the first steam train from Sydney to Whyalla, October 1972. Peterborough engineman Peter Smallacombe. Photo by M Billett.

Performing maintenance work on the Pirinari locomotive in the Peterborough loco depot, 1972. Photo by M Billett.

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Pirinari steam train from Sydney to Whyalla, October 1972. Taken in the Peterborough loco diesel shed. Photo by M Billett.

Peterborough engineman Bob Kennedy and fireman Doug Cornish, October 1972 on the Pirinari steam train from Sydney to Whyalla. Photo by M Billett.

Pirinari, the first steam train from Sydney to Whyalla, October 1972. NSW C38 Class locomotive and NSW 36 Class locomotive 3642. Photo by M Billett.

Pirinari, the first steam train from Sydney to Whyalla, October 1972. NSW C38 Class locomotive and NSW 36 Class locomotive 3642. Photo by M Billett.

Pirinari, the first steam train from Sydney to Whyalla, October 1972. NSW C38 Class locomotive and NSW 36 Class locomotive 3642. Photo by M Billett.

Pirinari, the first steam train from Sydney to Whyalla, October 1972. NSW C38 Class locomotive and NSW 36 Class locomotive 3642. Engineman Colin Taylor and fireman Robert Yates. Photo by M Billett.

Pirinari, the first steam train from Sydney to Whyalla, October 1972. NSW C38 Class locomotive and NSW 36 Class locomotive 3642. L: Gordon Jeffs, Max Twigden, Robert Yates, Colin Taylor. Photo by M Billett.

Pirinari, the first steam train from Sydney to Whyalla, October 1972. NSW C38 Class locomotive and NSW 36 Class locomotive 3642. Peterborough engineman Bob Kennedy and fireman Doug Cornish. Photo by M Billett.

Pirinari, the first steam train from Sydney to Whyalla, October 1972. NSW C38 Class locomotive and NSW 36 Class locomotive 3642. Cabin of 3642. Photo by M Billett.

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