3642 & 44211 Going To Thirlmere Rail Festival @ Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 2009

Sunday1st of March 2009

3642 is one of three survivors of the class of 75 locomotives introduced as express passenger engines in 1925. Following its withdrawal from revenue service, locomotive 3642 was used by the NSWRTM for steam tours. Then after it received a replacement boiler in 1981, it was used by the State Rail Authority for tours as its 'Steam Excitement' locomotive, until 1989, when it reverted to an NSWRTM tours engine. Its last tour was in 1996, after which it failed a boiler inspection and it has since been on static display at Thirlmere.

The New South Wales Rail Transport Museum ran their annual tour from Sydney to the Melbourne Cup over 4-7/11/2001. The train was hauled by heritage diesel locomotives 4201 and 44211. The load was thirteen stainless steel cars. Most of these were from the Southern Aurora.

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[TrainSpotterX]

From Picton to Thirlmere it's all up hill, tho I guess they use it in a push pull to Sydney and then back to Thirlmere.

[TheDemonicVampiro]

why does it have a diesel at the end? is it trialing or something?