Posts Tagged ‘retirement’

Retired V/Line locomotives now hauling freight

In recent years V/Line has been retiring their fleet of aging locomotive hauled carriages, with the long distance N sets given away to railway preservation groups, and the H sets sent for scrap. And with nothing left to haul, this has also rendered V/Line’s fleet of diesel locomotives surplus The story starts V/Line now has […]

Farewell to V/Line’s H type carriage sets

On Friday 2 February 2024 V/Line retired the last of their ‘H’ type carriage sets that dated back to the 1980s, so I decided to go for a ride down to Geelong. Some history V/Line’s ‘H’ type carriage sets were originally built as ‘Harris’ suburban trains back in the 1950s. SLV image H31188. Photographer unknown. […]