词条 | Victorian Railways Royal Train |
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The Victorian Railways Royal Train operated to transport members of the Royal Family on their numerous tours of Australia on the Victorian Railways network. The same carriages were also used for a number of vice-regal trains for the Governor-General of Australia and the Governor of Victoria. The last Royal Train ran in 1988. OperationRoyal trains usually operated with special carriage stock set aside for the purpose. Most trains operated with double headed locomotives to reduce the chance of the train being stranded due to locomotive failure, with a third locomotive running in front of the train to ensure the track was clear. A special headboard with the royal coat of arms was usually affixed to the front of the leading locomotive. CarriagesIn the history of the Victorian Railways there were five special carriages designated for royal train and other special services, designated State Car 1 through to State Car 5. The carriages were painted in the standard royal blue with gold trim of the Victorian Railways, with the exception of the 1988 Royal Tour. Operated by VR successor V/Line this trip was operated by two freshly cleaned, partially repainted (below footplate) & polished locomotives in the standard orange and grey livery, with the carriages painted in a one off 'executive' livery of grey and white, with orange and green trim.[1]
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To the best of available photograph resolution it appears that the make-up of the 1954 Royal Train consisted of at least:- a “CE” Guard’s/Brake Van; No. 5 steel State Car of 1951; No. 4 “E” series, wooden State Car of 1912; the all steel Avoca dining car of 1927 (along with her former sister “Hopkins”, the heaviest passenger cars ever on the Victorian railways); and various other unidentifiable wooden and steel cars from the photograph taken by Locomotive Driver, Mr. Kevin Whelan at Warburton on the final day of the 1954 Royal Train. The second division consisted of Thomas Tait era (ex VR Chief Commissioner) VR “carriage red” painted [Tait’s chosen carriage paint colour, which followed the earlier VR “Victoria Red”] sleeping, dining and ancillary carriages conveying media and other necessary support staff and followed the “first division” of the Royal Train around Victoria. The locomotives were crewed by: Commissioners’ Locomotive Driver, Mr. Frank Myers who had been the VR Commissioners’ Driver for in excess of twenty years and by fully qualified Locomotive Driver Mr. Kevin Whelan. Whelan had formerly been Myers’ “Locomotive Fireman” in the early 1950’s during the delivery of the “B” class locomotives. Myers asked Whelan back for the 1954 Royal Tour as he could not find a suitable Fireman for the role. The itinerary of the train was:- MONDAY MARCH 1:- Spencer Street Station to Crib Point Naval Base (at Westernport – where the Royal Train was “turned” on the “triangle” – a rare piece of track infrastructure on the Victorian Railways) and return to Spencer Street Station conveying the Royal couple in both directions. TUESDAY MARCH 2:- The train did not operate. A “rest day”. WEDNESDAY MARCH 3:- Royal Train(s) ran empty to Sale and returned to Spencer Street Station conveying the Royal couple ex Sale in Gippsland. THURSDAY MARCH 4:- Royal Train(s) departed Spencer Street at 17.00 hours with the Royal couple for Goorambat at mileage 131.75 on the Yarrawonga/Oaklands branch line north of Benalla. Trains stabled at Goorambat overnight with Royal couple. FRIDAY MARCH 5:- Royal Train(s) return to Benalla and detrained the Royal couple who travelled to Tatura by road-motor convoy. Royal train(s) ran empty to Seymour and reversed. Ran empty northwards via Mangalore, thence the main Goulburn Valley rail line and diverged at junction station of Toolamba for the Echuca branch to Tatura at mileage 110 miles on the 1880/1887 completed Echuca line. At Tatura entrained the Royal couple again. The Royal train(s) thence ran to Echuca and reversed; thence southbound to Bendigo via the original 1864 completed Echuca line via Rochester. After Bendigo, on the same day, the train continued south to Castlemaine, thence west via cross country branch line through Newstead to Maryborough. The train then ran south to Waubra Junction short of Ballarat, reversed and ran the short journey down the Waubra branch to the original 1881 terminus (by then a short spur branch) to the Ballarat Racecourse Platform at approximately 81 miles (locally known as “Dowling’s Forest Racecourse”). Royal Train(s) stabled overnight with the Royal Couple. SATURDAY MARCH 6:- Depart Ballarat Racecourse and ran into Ballarat. The Royal Train(s) then ran via Geelong, thence to Melbourne, pausing at the railway station platform at “Aircraft” at the former Laverton R.A.A.F. Base before continuing via and though Melbourne to Warburton (Warburton “proper” NOT “La-La” Siding at the very end of the line), where H.R.H. Queen Elizabeth II of the Empire and of Australia and her husband, H.R.H. Prince Philip detrained the Royal Train for the very last time. The two divisions of the Royal Train(s) then returned empty to Spencer Street Station in Melbourne and stabled.[18]
References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.victorianrailways.net/photogallery/gall05/05-15.html|title=Photo: Royal Tour 1988|publisher=www.victorianrailways.net|accessdate=8 June 2008}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.pjv101.net/cd/pages/c160v09.htm|title=Special Stock - 'Enterprise' / State Car 1|publisher=www.pjv101.net|accessdate=8 June 2008}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.pjv101.net/cd/pages/c160v24.htm|title=Special Stock - 'State Car 2'|publisher=www.pjv101.net|accessdate=8 June 2008}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.pjv101.net/cd/pages/c160v25.htm|title=Special Stock - 'State Car 3'|publisher=www.pjv101.net|accessdate=8 June 2008}} 5. ^{{cite magazine |date=August 1996 | title = Ninety years of the E cars | author = Chris Banger and Peter Medlin |magazine= Newsrail| publisher = Australian Railway Historical Society (Victorian Division) |page=236 }} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.pjv101.net/cd/pages/c160v06.htm|title=Special Stock - "State Car 5"|publisher=www.pjv101.net|accessdate=8 June 2008}} 7. ^"Centenary Exhibition" Railway Gazette 17 September 1954 page 316 8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.comrails.com/sar_carriages/n_state_car_5.html|title="State Car No.5" - Victorian Railways|publisher=www.comrails.com|accessdate=8 June 2008}} 9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.railpage.com.au/f-p1063808.htm#1063808|title=Commissioners' Train|work=Railpage Australia Forums|publisher=www.railpage.com.au|accessdate=8 June 2008}} 10. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web|url=http://www.historyvictoria.org.au/pdf/state.pdf|title=History Victoria: State occasions|publisher=www.historyvictoria.org.au|accessdate=8 June 2008}} 11. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.railwaymuseum.org.au/history2.html|title=ARHS Railway Museum: History 1900 - 1950|publisher=www.railwaymuseum.org.au|accessdate=8 June 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080719005852/http://railwaymuseum.org.au/history2.html|archive-date=19 July 2008|dead-url=yes|df=dmy-all}} 12. ^{{cite web|url=http://museumvictoria.com.au/railways/image.aspx?pid=1969|title=A2 steam locomotive hauling royal train, Spencer Street Station 1927|publisher=museumvictoria.com.au|accessdate=8 June 2008}} 13. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/pictoria/b/2/1/doc/b21415.shtml|title=A2.976 & 948 on Royal Train at Geelong. picture by|publisher=www.slv.vic.gov.au|accessdate=8 June 2008}} 14. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/pictoria/b/2/1/doc/b21416.shtml|title=The Royal Train at Seymour. picture by|publisher=www.slv.vic.gov.au|accessdate=5 July 2008}} 15. ^"D3s for a King's Son" Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin October 1970 pp221-227 16. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.historyvictoria.org.au/pdf/Mildura.pdf|title=History Victoria: The Mildura Story|author=Bruce McLean|publisher=www.historyvictoria.org.au|accessdate=8 June 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080719030504/http://www.historyvictoria.org.au/pdf/Mildura.pdf|archive-date=19 July 2008|dead-url=yes|df=dmy-all}} 17. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.707operations.com.au/default.aspx?page=R%20Class%20-%20A%20Brief%20History|title=:: 707 Operations Inc - Steam Trains of Australia ::|publisher=www.707operations.com.au|accessdate=8 June 2008|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080521144153/http://www.707operations.com.au/default.aspx?page=R+Class+-+A+Brief+History|archivedate = 21 May 2008}} 18. ^Interview with retired Locomotive Driver from 1954 Royal Train, Mr. Kevin Whelan held on 25-08-2018 19. ^"Queens Mother's Railway Journey" Railway Gazette 14 March 1958 page 300 20. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.victorianrailways.net/vr%20history/history.html|title=VR History|publisher=www.victorianrailways.net|accessdate=8 June 2008}} 21. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.victorianrailways.net/photogallery/westsou/bratroy.html|title=Ballarat: Royal Train|publisher=www.victorianrailways.net|accessdate=8 June 2008}} 22. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.victorianrailways.net/photogallery/gallery%20pages/pic06.html|title=Rowsley: Royal Train|publisher=www.victorianrailways.net|accessdate=8 June 2008}} External links
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