Brisbane Kyogle Casino 27-2-1955 NSW Northern Division WTT [540 KB PDF]. This not the full Sydney Brisbane WTT.
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Some of the pages reflect the fact a “friend of a friend” originally copied it out of a stiffly bound book.
Both N2 Brisbane Limited Express and N4 Brisbane Express in this era left South Brisbane before the corresponding northbound N1 and N3 services arrived at South Brisbane. Their crossings in the border ranges are shown.
In the WTT a horizontal black line with a horizontal digit next to it at a crossing loop shows the train that was crossed at that location eg N1 Brisbane Limited crosses it southbound counterpart N2 at Glenapp and N4 Brisbane Express at Tamrookum. The Glenapp entry has a “L” in the digits for N1 which reflects time allowed for Loco eg fill tender with water and clean fire or oil motion etc. N1 also had “L” = loco at Casino. I assume the R in the middle of the digits at Casino for N1 also means refreshments at the RRR. I only have these pages from this WTT.
Also shown are the sometimes 13 class tank loco hauled trains sometimes referred to it as “The Squirt” and later “The Mountain Goat”. The early morning N23/N24 and afternoon N29/N30 were variously listed as goods, mixed and passenger in the WTT. These catered for local traffic on the Casino / Border Loop section. It had end platform passenger cars, van and some goods wagons as required. It carried dairy, timber, school kids, shoppers and any other person or commodity as required. The notes at the bottom of the pages show some of the stopping places and services these trains supplied.
Timetable is dated 27-2-1955 which is before 42 class diesels were introduced. Clyde GM 4201was handed over to the NSWGR at a ceremony 28 November 1955.
Following from “The 42 class of NSW”, Morahan, M, ARHS Bulletin Jan 1985, to help those not aware of the intro of diesels onto the NSW North Coast passenger service. There were some earlier 40 class tests as well, I understand.
Loco 4201 worked No. 1 Brisbane Limited express to Casino on December 4 1955 and returned on No. 4 Brisbane express. The 1000-mile round trip was completed in 38 hrs 8 min., including laying over at Casino for 4 hrs 49 min. No. 4 arrived in Sydney 38 min. early. This was followed by a special test run with a 460-ton freight train from Sydney (Darling Harbour) to Clapham (Brisbane) on December 8, returning from Clapham on December 9 to determine running times for the faster operation of Nos. 1 and 2 Brisbane Limited express as from January 22 1956. The northbound express will be accelerated by 2 hrs 55 min. and No. 4's time will be reduced by 3 hrs 35 min."
Following the delivery of 4401 on 8th July, 1957, the Alco classes (40, 43 and 44) quickly took over northern workings and the 42's moved to the South with the occasional Illawarra working.
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