NA back to Walhalla

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http://www.walhallarail.com/site2/



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Excursion train crossing Thomson River (Victoria) ca 1910

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walhalla_railway_line,_Victoria

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Some photographs I took at Walhalla last time I was there

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Rail bridge (2'6" gauge) over the Thomson River



Logging equipment at Erica.  Numerous tramways operated in the area.



Walhalla Station



Walhalla yard



Photographs R Dow 10th July 2009

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A very rare event.  No doubt many are aware of Puffing Billy in Victoria   http://www.puffingbilly.com.au/ .  Now one of the worlds great preserved (and operating) narrow gauge steam railways.

Victoria Railways (VR) had four narrow gauge railways, Colac to Crowes ( see here for some photograph of the last train from Crowes by my Grandfather   http://www.ozbob.com/grand/page_three.html  and  http://www.ozbob.com/grand/index.html ), Wangaratta to Whitfield, Ferntree Gully to Gembrook (which is now Puffing Billy – Belgrave to Gembrook) and perhaps the grandest of them all, Moe to Walhalla  http://www.walhallarail.com/site2/ .  A number of years ago some enthusiasts returned to operation the line from Walhalla to Thomson river.  

To celebrate 100 years since the line opened, a steam engine from Belgrave was transported by road to Walhalla, and ran some special commemorative journeys on the weekend of the 29th/30th May 2010.   To have achieved this is most remarkable.

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Incidentally 7A was the last locomotive to leave Walhalla when the line closed.  

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NA class 7A, VR 2'6" Upper Ferntree Gully 1957

Photograph P G Dow 1957