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At Diamond Valley Station. 8120 is passed by 7447m - a F40 model buit by John Brown and currently owned by a RobertGriffith
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A Christmas scene of DVR in operation on 24th December showing Ian Matthews on 8172 with Howard Grenville coming through the middle road at DV Station on D2 1300 with a service train under the watchful eye of Guard Robert Griffiths.
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Murray Breach strikes a confident pose beside the D2 on a booked Special Santa Train in the platform road as the 81, under the capable hands of Paul Gallacher, comes through Pine Creek with a service train. |
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Sunday 14th Jan was only 25 degrees and the public took advantage of the cooler conditions and flocked to DVR. We carried over 1,900 passengers and had 6 trains in service to cope with the demand. L to R at DV Station, Milwaukee Road, B71 (about to depart) and 8172 loading and G527 passing through the Station on the Up Through Line with the 6 wheel bogie E car set.
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The changing scene at DVR. One of the highlights of the Railway is the passing of trains. On 21st January 2007 we see in the foreground a 6 car mixed consist including Jim Willcox's Valley Flyer cars and hauled by T 320 and the DERM passing by on the Outer Circle Line towards Pine Creek, whilst Pat Minihan, in D2 1300, comes round the 60 foot radius Sanctuary Curve on the Up Through Line. From appearances, the passengers are clearly enjoying the atmosphere of trains passing each other!
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Jims Willcox's last run behind Helga. On Saturday 18th November, after advertising Helga for sale, the engine was given a test run for the intending purchaser from South Australia and here we see the train exiting Nillumbik Tunnel with Jim relaxing in the Pettersen V/Line Carriage being used for the occasion.
Helga had not been used for at least 12 months and Jim confided to me later that he was a bit nervous as to whether everything would go well,...and of course it did, ...and the transaction was confirmed on a handshake at the end of Platform 2 at the completion of this run. By 2.00pm she was on her way west to Adelaide in a trailer to run at Morphett Vale Railway, which it is doing very well today. I think Jim was happy that it was sold to another steam enthusiast but pensive at the end of an era of having a direct involvement in a steam engine.
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On Sunday 21st January 2007, during Jims stay in Hospital, the opportunity was taken to run Jims DERM 55 with John Murdoch's T320 plus the Murdochs AS car, the Pettersens Vline Car, the DVR AS car and Jims three W type cars at the rear. The intention was to print off a copy of several pictures of this very photogenic train and have them taken into Jim to show him that DVR was thinking of him, alas, that was not to be. The six car train is seen here leaving DV Station with John Murdoch on the T and Russell Murdoch powering up the DERM.
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Jim Willcox as we knew him in recent years, taking a keen interest in train running on Sunday 5th November 2006, as Brian Coleman takes Pauline out of Number 2 platform with another service train.
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Gordon Webb at the controls of his Petrol Mechanical VR B Class comes around Sanctuary Curve on the Up Through Line as diesel hydraulic D2 1300 approaches an intermediate signal gantry on the Inner Circle Line on Sunday 7th January 2007.
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The three-way cross - just!
DVR can provide an exciting variety of angles and combinations of equipment for the photographer. Here we see D2 1300 (driver Murray Breach) on the Down Outer Circle Line paralleling with S 301 (Matthew Scott under instruction from Ted - Rumpole - Calnan) on the Inner Circle Line as Alan Foot on the Tait set starts the climb up to DV on the Up Through Line on 28th January 2007.
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Its Christmas Time at DVR. Howard Grenville brings D2 1300 on a well filled service train of NBH Cars out of the Nillumbik Tunnel on the Up Local Line towards Diamond Valley Station on Sunday 24th December 2006.
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Mark Jackson drifts down the grade after leaving Diamond Valley Station with a service train hauled by 8172 on 26th January 2007.
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As part of its program to rerail the entire railway over the next 5 years with new 6kg rail, DVR periodically orders in a stock of new plastic sleepers. Seen here on Wednesday 7th March 2007, Diesel Hydraulic D2 1300 brings a consignment of 50mm x 50mm section plastic sleeper material into Nillumbik Siding on the Way and Works train.
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S301 slumbers on the turntable after the annual DVR 12 Hour Community Day Run held on Sunday 11th March 2007. The Railway operated non stop between 11.00am and 11.00pm to raise funds towards charitable and local service groups in the Eltham area. A total of 3679 passengers were carried on 11 trains which is the best result ever for the railway.
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Private locomotives and carriages played a vital part in the annual 12 Hour Community Day Run at DVR. Russell Murdoch waits clearance to move SAR Alco 700 at the head of the Overland Set forward to the DV Departure Platform. During the busy evening run the Railway moved over 500 people between 8.00pm and 9.00pm.
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The DVR "Dogbox" set of EMU cars waits its next call to run a service train at the Pert Workshops, March 2007
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Our new member Leo Sorensen enjoys the comfort of Robert Griffiths F40 Loco in East Yard in February 2007. The F40 has mechanical drive to both bogies via transfer boxes and rides on Blumberg Type bogies with working swing link bolsters.
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Peter Meyer and Tim Haldane service Maros one day in late 2006 at DV Platform 3
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The car builders art is personified in this study of Alan Foots 2 inch scale Tait carriages during a shunt at DVR,
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A Sunday afternoon at DVR. Busy DV Station on 25th march 2007.
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Andrew Mierisch brings the BL and X44 down past SG1 towards Triangle Junction with a well loaded service train on Sunday 25/03/07.
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David Head brings BL28 which has recently been MU'ed with X44 past the site of the old "B" signalbox at Diamond Valley.
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BL 28 and X44 under the control of Stephen Coombs, exit the little tunnel on a service train, Sunday 250307.
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