Steamrail Victoria

Steamrail Victoria

Steamrail Victoria is a not-for-profit volunteer group established in 1965 to the restore and operate historic locomotives and rolling stock used on the railways in Victoria, Australia. [cite web
url=http://www.steamrail.com.au/srv_aboutus.html
title=Steamrail Victoria - About Us
publisher=www.steamrail.com.au
accessdate=2008-06-02] The main depot of the group is at the Newport Railway Workshops ('West Block') in suburban Melbourne. In addition to operating railfan special trains and charters for private groups, the group also operates special steam trains in the Melbourne suburban area. [cite web
url=http://www.dpc.vic.gov.au/domino/Web_Notes/newmedia.nsf/798c8b072d117a01ca256c8c0019bb01/4841889e6b6f3ee2ca256f0d00794f5a!OpenDocument
title=Media Release: RIDE A STEAM TRAIN AROUND MELBOURNE THIS SUNDAY
publisher=www.dpc.vic.gov.au
accessdate=2008-06-02] Steamrail Victoria also hires diesel locomotives to operators such as Pacific National and El Zorro. [cite web
url=http://www.vline.com.au/pdf/rna/addenda.pdf
title=Addenda
work=V/Line ~ Network Access ~ Information Pack
publisher=www.vline.com.au
accessdate=2008-06-02] [cite web
url=http://www.steamrail.com.au/forums/viewtopic.php?t=443
title=Steamrail Forum ~ View topic - El Zorro Hirings of SRV Locos
publisher=www.steamrail.com.au
accessdate=2008-06-02]

The group has custody of a number of Victorian Railways steam locomotives, including the R, D3 and K classes; in addition to several diesel electric locomotives, and various suburban electric rolling stock. [cite web
url=http://www.vicsig.net/index.php?page=special&group=Steamrail%20Victoria
title=VICSIG - Heritage Groups - Steamrail Victoria
publisher=www.vicsig.net
accessdate=2008-06-02] Heritage carriages include the wooden 'E' and 'W' types, steel air conditioned 'S' type carriages, and South Australian 'K' type steel stock. The group has been criticised by some elements of the railfan community for use of non-heritage liveries on rolling stock. [cite web
url=http://www.railpage.com.au/f-p1010224.htm
title=S313 SteamRail Victoria Movie Livery??? - Railpage Australia™ Forums (Victoria)
publisher=www.railpage.com.au
accessdate=2008-06-02]

References

External links

* http://www.steamrail.com.au/ (official site)


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