In this video, a rescue mission was made with V/Line N455 and A66 when the evening down Bairnsdale (8469) had a fault, resulting an early termination at Warragul.
A66 used to be in the Mk3 livery of V/Line, or commonly known as the “Cheeseburger” livery. It was introduced ever since 2007 and is now slowly disappearing today with the livery already gone on the VLocities first, along with the N Class locomotives and Sprinters.
With the exception of N474 “City of Traralgon”, a little number of Sprinters along with two P Class locos, which are P12 and P15, that of course V/Line still owns as of writing this.
I sadly, never got the chance to see A66 in the cheeseburger livery, only once I got the chance when it was at Dudley Street Sidings in May 2021.
But anyways, all to say and enjoy the video!
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DMU(s): VLocity
Numbers: 3VL00
Name(s): N/A
Owner & Operator: V/Line Passenger
Service: 8406 – Southern Cross
Seen At: 1:35
Notes: N/A
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DMU(s): VLocity
Numbers: 3VL12
Name(s): N/A
Owner & Operator: V/Line Passenger
Service: 8401 – Traralgon
Seen At: 2:25
Notes: Running a few minutes late…
3
Locomotive(s): N & A Class
Numbers: N455 & A66
Name(s): “City of Swan Hill” (N455)
Owner & Operator: V/Line Passenger
Service: Light Engine as Unspecified
Seen At: 3:00
Notes: It has been a long time A66 had been on the Gippsland Line since 2015, it was nice to see it again back on the Gippsland Line.
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DMU(s): VLocity
Numbers: 3VL85
Name(s): N/A
Owner & Operator: V/Line Passenger
Service: 8420
Seen At: 6:18
Notes: New and Old…except I zoomed in which was annoying. 🙃
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Locomotive(s): A & N Class
Numbers: A66, N455 and N458
Name(s): “City of Swan Hill” and “City of Maryborough” (N458)
Owner & Operator: V/Line Passenger
With what carriages(?): Power can PH452 and Set N10
Service: 8498 – Empty Cars to South Dynon from Warragul
Seen At: 7:00
Notes: N/A
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Locomotive(s): VL Class
Numbers: VL357 & VL351
Name(s): “Empire Rose” (VL357) and “Danehill” (VL351)
Owner: Railfirst Asset Management
Operator: QUBE Logistics
With what wagons / carriages (?): Flatcars with Empty Containers
Service: 9473
Seen At: 8:06
Notes: The Maryvale Paper Train on the down usually doesn’t run during the afternoon, it would only run back to the paper mill during evenings or early mornings if a disruption the day earlier were to occur.
But this was rare to see, it makes some people remind themselves of the Pacific National days.
Yes, Pacific National used to run the paper train ever since it took over Freight Australia in 2004 prior to QUBE’S takeover in 2013.
That’s all of the listing on the video!
Metro Trains Melbourne’s website:
https://www.metrotrains.com.au
If you’re looking for V/Line’s passenger or freight (not all are listed) timetables or run numbers, go to this website:
https://corporate.vline.com.au/Network-Access/Network-service-plan
If not V/Line and it’s standard gauge you’re looking for. Then here:
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Nice video Nick. I wish I got videos and photos of the rescue mission but I had school sadly.