Express Train Video - Australia

All Quiet On The Northern Front

Clyde built 1503, a member of the 1502 Class locomotives of Queensland Rail sits in serenity at Wallangarra yard on the border of Queensland and New South Wales. The solitude is due to it being Good Friday, 4 April 1980.

1503 probably sat silently until the following Tuesday after the conclusion of the Easter long weekend.

The yard at Wallangarra was rather light on wagons with only an odd assortment around the yard. The New South Wales side was similar.

Mackay DH in Action

DH 45 hauling 1271 and an unknown 1300 Class out of a siding that served a fuel point and a rail motor shed.

It was late in the day and things seemed to be readying for a string of night operations.

The image was captured in July 1980.

Helidon passenger working on a Saturday afternoon. 1740, a Clyde built 1720 Class is seen here in the later afternoon having cut off and run around the passenger cars. The scene was in July 1980.

More than likely, 1740 was substituting for a 2000 Class Rail Car set.

A timetable from that era had a rail car working off Helidon at 1730 to return to Roma Street in Brisbane.

A Saturday afternoon view from Countess Street overlooking 1451 on the Gympie passenger service. In the background is the top of Roma Street yard with a DH Class loco in the middle of a shunt.

The image was taken in 1980. The timetable of the day shows a late afternoon service departing Roma Street for Gympie at 1745. In the timetable of 1980 it was listed as a rail car service. However, from time to time, loco hauled trains deputised.

The BLV Guards Van at the front is 447. Of course BLV 447 is well known and remains part of the Queensland Rail Heritage fleet. The other car numbers were not recorded.