These trips will contain a number of firsts (and sadly a few lasts). For all the details and to book your tickets visit http://www.707operations.com.au.
And very nice too, thank you Factory_Fill. Nine cars is a good load for an R, and the lift out of Seymour and over the High Street level crossing sounded nice ( except for the pesky leaking cylinder release cock on the fireman's side).Great photos and video Factory_Fill. Thanks for posting them.
Looking at the video, the RH side cylinder cocks seems to be blowing from very early and then both sides for a few seconds presumably in an attempt to get the RH one(s) to seat properly.It's always worth a try. This time it didn't work, but I noticed in subsequent footage that the cocks weren't leaking.
707 Operations have released details for a trio of trips in July 2017, with a Classic Carriage Afternoon Steam Soiree to South Geelong with R707 Saturday 15 July, Best of British Suburban Tour with F208 and R707 Sunday 16 July and Farewell to Murrayville Broad Gauge Weekend with heritage diesels and sleeping carriages Friday 21 July to Sunday 23 July.Well after some dithering, I have taken the plunge and Booked for the Murrayville trip.
These trips will contain a number of firsts (and sadly a few lasts). For all the details and to book your tickets visit http://www.707operations.com.au.
707 Operations have released details for a trio of trips in July 2017, with a Classic Carriage Afternoon Steam Soiree to South Geelong with R707 Saturday 15 July, Best of British Suburban Tour with F208 and R707 Sunday 16 July and Farewell to Murrayville Broad Gauge Weekend with heritage diesels and sleeping carriages Friday 21 July to Sunday 23 July.Its only two weeks until the return of English Electric F208 for its first (and likely only) mainline tour for many years with 707 Operations Best of British Tour with R707 - I hope everyone has brought a ticket or made a photographers donation. Without everyone's support through traveling on these tours, we won't have these opportunities for mainline heritage into the future.
These trips will contain a number of firsts (and sadly a few lasts). For all the details and to book your tickets visit http://www.707operations.com.au.
Well, they did it. Saw F 208 leading a fair size train, with R 707 behind bearing the tail disc. Good few people aboard, hope they enjoyed their day, comical as it may have been. Managed to see the train at Deer Park on my way out, was tempted to walk ahead for a photo, but alas time was against me.T'was a pleasant way to spend the afternoon, visiting locations rarely seen by passengers. With a maximum permissible speed of 30km/h the tour was somewhat of a stately progression. However, it gave plenty of time to observe and discuss the passing scene.
Good luck to 707 Ops; they deserve credit for having the creativity to run the trip, probably the first trip run by an F this century!
The Murrayville (Vinelander to Murrayille) trip is underway after a 90 min delay at Southern Cross due to a signalling problemHo hum - business as usual, I see. Something fails, no back-up position and everything stops. An antique dealer would pay well for our rail system.
And they run around like it's never happened before!The Murrayville (Vinelander to Murrayille) trip is underway after a 90 min delay at Southern Cross due to a signalling problemHo hum - business as usual, I see. Something fails, no back-up position and everything stops. An antique dealer would pay well for our rail system.
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