Victorian Railways K Class K190 brings the Mitcham-Mooroolbark shuttle service into Mooroolbark, with K153 bringing up the rear.
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Victorian Railways K Class K190 brings the Mitcham-Mooroolbark shuttle service into Mooroolbark, with K153 bringing up the rear.
The 2010 Steamrail shuttle between Mooroolbark and Mitcham with Victorian Railways steam Class Ks K153 and K190.
This view has now been consigned to history. The station and the level crossings have been swept away by an elevated railway line and station.
Steamrail’s K153 heads back to Mitcham from Mooroolbark Station, about to cross the Manchester Road level crossing.
K153 was in light steam on the Mitcham end of yesterday’s post on K190. The Victorian Railways K Class must hold some kind of record in the preservation scene with 21 of the 53 built still surviving in various states.
Victorian Railways K Class K190 running a Sunday shuttle service between Mooroolbark and Mitcham. To avoid running around fellow K Class K153 brought up the rear, ready to head back to Mitcham.
The builders plate from yesterdays steam lorry. A search revealed that some details of our mystery machine. Foden 10988, was built in 1923 with a 6 ton capacity, and worked in a quarry in Castlemaine.
A Foden steam lorry (VIC 5-107) seen here at Healesville Railway Station back in 2009. Foden built most of their steam lorries as overtypes, with the boiler in the cab, making them look like traction engines.
A relic of the early days of the Great Western Railway, and Swindon. This silver model of a GWR Firefly Class locomotive served as a coffee pot in the Swindon Railway Station refreshment rooms in the 1840s when this class where to be seen between London and Bristol. Small burners were placed under the locomotive to keep the coffee warm. I’m not too sure how well it worked as the engineer of the GWR, IK Brunel, wrote to the concessionaire “I am surprised that you bought such bad roasted corn. I did not believe that you had such a thing as coffee in the place.“
Marshall, Sons and Co Ltd works number 85055, built in Gainsborough, UK, now resident in the Tokomaru Steam Engine Museum.