707's Riverlander Tour 2024

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9-3-2024
This video follows 2 V/line N class loco's used to run the 707 operations Riverlander tour which started at Melbourne to Piangil. I started the chase at Bendigo to Piangil and return to Swan Hill where it was stabled until Sunday the 10th where it departed Swan Hill at 12:30 to Melbourne and I finnished the chase at Back at Bendigo. This train served 2 purposes 1 being the 707 Operations tour 2 being a driver training run as SSR (southern Shorthuall Railroad) are leasing 4 N class loco's from V/line. this train was also made up of a mix of carriages that were once used on the Overland which ran between Melbourne and Adelaide, the Southern Aroura which ran between Melbourne and Sydney, V/line passenger N car and Wando and old 1920's carriage.
Wando -- Sleeping Car 5
Victorian Railways wooden sleeping carriage, with a Clerestory roof, built to the same design as the cars used for The Overland. It was built in 1923 at Newport, by contractors Gaulton and party, for use on the Adelaide and Mildura lines. The provision of a tenth two berth cabin occupied the area used as the smoking saloon in the earlier cars. A weight of 41 tons 10 cwt, was recorded.All other dimensions, were identical with the Joint Stock Sleepers. A feature of the modified cars was the unequal length of the end vestibules. The one at the end where the tenth sleeping cabin, smoking saloon end of the "standard" cars, was 1 foot 9 inch longer than the other being 9 foot 5¼ inch long.
the consist of this train is locomtive's N468 - N462
and carriages:
PCP 294 - JTA6 - SJ 284 - CLUB 1 - ACZ 257 - BTN 259 (MTM CODE ACZ 259) -LOWANNA - LAN 2354 - NAM 2336 - LAN 2352 - WANDO.
Info on the N class can be seen by clicking the link below
en.wikipedia.o...