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词条 V/Line G class
释义

  1. History

     Delivery  National Rail  Freight Australia 

  2. Features

  3. Fleet list

  4. Model railways

     HO Scale 

  5. References

  6. External links

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|powertype = Diesel-electric
|image = Pacific-national-g-classes.jpg
|alt = 250px
|caption = Two Pacific National liveried G class locomotives in Melbourne in February 2007
|builder = Clyde Engineering
Rosewater
Somerton
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|serialnumber = 84-1239 to 84-1243
85-1229 to 85-1235
86/1236 to 86-1238
88-1256 to 88-1265
89-1266
89-1270 to 89-1276
|buildmodel = Original: Electro-Motive Diesel JT26C-2SS
Rebuilt: Electro-Motive Diesel JT36C-2SS
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|totalproduction = 33
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{{track gauge|1600mm|lk=on}}
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Rebuilt: Electro-Motive Diesel 16-645F3B
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|generator = Electro-Motive Diesel AR16A-D18
(G511-G515)
Electro-Motive Diesel AR16A-CA5
(G516-G543)
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(G511-G525)
Electro-Motive Diesel D87
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Continuous: {{convert|311|kN|abbr=on}} at {{convert|18|km/h|abbr=on}}
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|firstrundate = 16 October 1984
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|currentowner = CFCL Australia
Freightliner
Linx Cargo Care Group
Pacific National
Southern Shorthaul Railroad
Qube Logistics
Watco Australia
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The G Class are a class of diesel locomotive built by Clyde Engineering, Rosewater and Somerton for V/Line between 1984 and 1989.

History

By the early 1980s the first generation diesels purchased by the Victorian Railways were nearly 30 years old, with an average fleet age of 20 years. In addition 70% of the fleet was of 1,000 horsepower or less, a consequence of the historically large number of branch lines in the state.[1]

Rationalisation of the rail freight task had also been carried out, with small freight consignments being consolidated to 'freight centres' from 1976. Moves had also been made towards the operation of block trains carrying a single commodity, rather than trains carrying a wider variety of freight.[2] Grain became the major commodity carried by rail in Victoria, with the consulting arm of Canadian National commissioned by VicRail in 1983 to find ways of improving efficiency. Recommendations carried out included increasing train sizes to 50 bogie wagons and closing a number of branch lines.[1]

Delivery

At the same time Australian National had placed an order with Clyde Engineering, Rosewater for 10 BL class locomotives, with an option for a further five. VicRail's chairman Alan Reiher, stepped in and negotiated for the five to be completed for the newly formed V/Line.[2][3] The new diesels had a much higher axle load than the smaller T and Y class diesels used on branch lines, with these lines either being upgraded to carry heavier trains or closed.[2] These were all delivered in late 1984.[4][5]

A second order was placed for ten further units that were more tailored to V/Line's requirements. The first five were built with standard gauge bogies being delivered via Sydney. Over the next few years members of the second batch would frequently swap gauges as needs dictated. In July 1986 through running without changing locomotives at Albury began with G class locomotives operating through to Sydney.[6] Two further contracts for eleven and seven broad gauge units had brought the fleet up to 33 by November 1989.[5][7] The first 15 were built at Clyde Engineering's, Rosewater factory with the balance built at Somerton.[8]

Although primarily intended for hauling freight services, they were also used on passenger trains such as the Intercapital Daylight and Sydney/Melbourne Express.[9] They rarely hauled broad gauge passenger trains.[10]

National Rail

When National Rail commenced operating interstate services in the mid 1990s seven (517-520, 522, 523 & 525) were leased by V/Line pending the delivery of the NR class.[11][12]

The class were also used on the first privately operated train on government tracks in Australia, operated by SCT Logistics with V/Line locomotives and crews between Melbourne and Adelaide on 13 July 1995.[2] This was extended through to Perth from October 2000.[13]

Freight Australia

All 33 were included in the sale of V/Line Freight to Freight Victoria in March 1999. On 26 November 1999 G517 and G518 were destroyed in a head-on collision at Ararat between an eastbound grain train and a stationary ballast train.[10][14]

Freight Australia commenced a program of engine upgrades purchasing new engines for some of the G class, with the old engines being used to repower X class locomotives, later recoded the XR class.[15]

In the early 2000s Freight Australia was contracted to move freight between Melbourne and Sydney for CRT Group. The contract contained a clause that if Freight Australia was acquired by a competitor of CRT Group, {{convert|10000|hp|abbr=on}} of locomotive power (calculated by the business CRT Group was offering Freight Australia) was to be transferred to CRT Group.[16] As a result, when Freight Australia was acquired by Pacific National in 2004, G516 and G534 were transferred to CRT.[17] They were included in the sale of CRT Group to QR National in 2005.

A condition imposed by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission on Toll Holdings taking control of Pacific National was that nine locomotives be sold to SCT Logistics.[18][19][20] This resulted in nine G class passing to SCT Logistics in February 2007.

By mid 2008 SCT Logistics had received new locomotives, and their G classes were sold to the Australian Wheat Board, Chicago Freight Car Leasing Australia and Southern Shorthaul Railroad.[5]

Pacific National's fleet operate on both the broad and standard gauges, with the latter often operating in New South Wales. In April 2018, with Aurizon closing down its intermodal business, G516 and G534 were sold to the Linx Cargo Care Group.[21]

Features

The G class featured imported General Motors-Electro-Motive Division technology (prime mover, alternator and traction motors) on a locally designed frame and body. Major advances introduced with the class included cab air conditioning, onboard toilet, Trimount type high adhesion bogies, and Super Series wheel creep control to enable heavier loads to be hauled.[22] The locomotives were designed to be of minimum mass, allowing a higher fuel load. The body consists of two side trusses with load bearing supports, roofbows and integral cabs. The side panels are made of fibreglass for the minimum weight, with various accessories mounted in removable roof hatches.

The first five units were fitted with carbody pressurisation, as fitted to many other Australian National locomotives for operation in the dusty outback areas they operated in. Differences in the subsequent units included the fitting of double blade windscreen wipers, lowering of the multiple-unit jumper receptacle, and the changing of the marker light orientation from vertical to horizontal. Recent years have seen many of the class fitted with on line refuelling, and working from Melbourne to Perth on the SCT Logistics service.

Fleet list

LocomotiveNamedSerial NoEntered serviceOwnerOperatorLiveryGaugeStatus
G51184-1239October 1984Watco AustraliaWatco AustraliaWatco Black & YellowStandardOperational
G512Peter Pan84-1240November 1984CFCL AustraliaQube LogisticsCFCLA silver & blueBroadOperational
G51384-1241November 1984Southern Shorthaul RailroadSouthern Shorthaul RailroadSSR yellow & blackStandardOperational
G51484-1242November 1984Southern Shorthaul RailroadSouthern Shorthaul RailroadSSR yellow & blackStandardOperational
G515Rising Fast84-1243November 1984CFCL AustraliaQube LogisticsCFCLA silver & blueBroadOperational
G51685-1229December 1985Linx Cargo Care GroupLinx Cargo Care GroupLinx Cargo Care BlueStandardOperational
G51785-1230March 1986Freight VictoriaFreight VictoriaV/Line orange & greyStandardScrapped
G51885-1231February 1986Freight VictoriaFreight VictoriaV/Line orange & greyStandardScrapped
G51985-1232December 1986Pacific NationalPacific NationalPacific National Blue & yellowStandardOperational
G52085-1233March 1986Pacific NationalPacific NationalFreight Australia green & yellowStandardOperational
G52185-1234February 1986Qube LogisticsQube LogisticsSCT Logistics red, white & blackBroadOperational
G52285-1235March 1986Pacific NationalPacific NationalPacific National blue & yellowBroadOperational
G52386-1236March 1986Pacific NationalPacific NationalFreight Australia green & yellowStandardOperational
G52486-1237April 1986Pacific NationalPacific NationalFreight Australia green & yellowBroadOperational
G52586-1238April 1986Pacific NationalPacific NationalPacific National blue & yellowBroadOperational
G52688-1256March 1988Pacific NationalPacific NationalFreight Australia green & yellowStandardOperational
G52788-1257April 1988Pacific NationalPacific NationalPacific National blue & yellowBroadOperational
G52888-1258May 1988Pacific NationalPacific NationalFreight Australia green & yellowStandardOperational
G52988-1259June 1988Pacific NationalPacific NationalFreight Australia green & yellowBroadOperational
G53088-1260July 1988Pacific NationalPacific NationalPacific National blue & yellowStandardOperational
G53188-1261July 1988Pacific NationalPacific NationalPacific National blue & yellowBroadOperational
G53288-1262August 1988Qube LogisticsQube LogisticsSCT Logistics red, white & blackBroadOperational
G53388-1263September 1988FreightlinerFreightlinerFreightliner green & yellowStandardOperational
G53488-1264November 1988Linx Cargo Care GroupLinx Cargo Care GroupLinx cargoStandardOperational
G535Kevin Sheedy Express88-1265December 1988FreightlinerFreightlinerFreightliner green & yellowStandardOperational
G53689-1266February 1989Pacific NationalPacific NationalPacific National blue & yellowBroadOperational
G53789-1270May 1989Pacific NationalPacific NationalFreight Australia green & yellowStandardOperational
G53889-1271May 1989Pacific NationalPacific NationalFreight Australia green & yellowStandardOperational
G53989-1272June 1989Pacific NationalPacific NationalFreight Australia green & yellowBroadOperational
G540Wycheproof89-1273August 1989Pacific NationalPacific NationalFreight Australia green & yellowStandardOperational
G541Birchip89-1274September 1989Pacific NationalPacific NationalPacific National Blue and YellowBroadOperational
G542Warracknabeal89-1275October 1989Pacific NationalPacific NationalFreight Australia green & yellowBroadOperational
G54389-1276November 1989Pacific NationalPacific NationalFreight Australia green & yellowStandardOperational

Model railways

HO Scale

Auscision Models has announced a future project including G Class Mark 1 locomotives - G511, 512 in early V/Line orange/grey and Freight Australia green/yellow (and 512 only in Chicago Freight Car Leasing Australia blue/grey), 513 and 514 in late V/Line orange/grey, Specialised Container Transport red/white and Southern Shorthaul Railroad yellow/black, 515 in Freight Victoria green/yellow and in Chicago Freight Car Leasing Australia blue/grey.[23] The models are expected to be delivered either as DC, or for an additional charge they could be pre-fitted with DCC and Sound.

Austrains in 2014 released models of the G class locomotive retailing at about $300 per model, and originally intended to include the option of pre-fitted DCC and Sound for an additional $100.. The range included "G 220" in VR Blue and Gold, using the body shell of a Series 1 type; in V/Line the locomotives included G 511, 518, 523 and 531. Freight Australia locomotives included G 513, 521 and 539, and the Pacific National models include 532, 535 and 540.[24]

Powerline released models of the first two batches of G class locomotives in V/Line Orange in 1989, then with a new motor type in 1997. The first run included G 513, 515, 521 and 523 with a single motor, and 512, 514, 522 and 524. The second run had G 511, 513 with single motors and 512 with dual motors.[25]

References

1. ^{{cite magazine|date=October 1987|title=V/Line Grain Handling|author=Peter Foote|magazine=Newsrail|publisher=Australian Railway Historical Society (Victorian Division)|pages=292–297}}
2. ^{{cite book|author=Lee, Robert|title=The Railways of Victoria 1854–2004|publisher=Melbourne University Publishing|year=2007|isbn= 978-0-522-85134-2|pages=228, 232,236}}
3. ^{{cite book|last=Oberg|first=Leon|title=Locomotives of Australia: 1850s - 2007|page=398|publisher=Rosenberg Publishing|year=2007|isbn=1-877058-54-8}}
4. ^G Class (G511-G525) Railpage
5. ^G Class Vicsig
6. ^"V/Line Standard Gauge Report" Railway Digest August 1986 page 247
7. ^G Class (G526-G543) Railpage
8. ^G class diesel electric locomotives Mark Bau's VR Website
9. ^{{cite magazine|date=January 1994|title=Exit the Sydney/Melbourne express|author=Julian Insall|magazine=Newsrail|publisher=Australian Railway Historical Society (Victorian Division)|pages=7–9}}
10. ^"The G class locomotives of Victoria" Railway Digest April 2000 page 23
11. ^{{cite magazine|date=April 2000|title=The Dash 9 in Australia: National Rail's NR class|author=Antony Fitzgerald|magazine=Australian Model Railway Magazine|page=27}}
12. ^"NR G Class" Railway Digest April 1996 page 37
13. ^"Freight Australia Takes Over SCT Services to Perth" Railway Digest November 2000 page 11
14. ^{{cite book|url=http://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/1999/RAIR/pdf/rair1999002_001.pdf|title=Collision Between Freight Train 9784 and Ballast Train 9795 at Ararat, Victoria on 26 November 1999|publisher=Australian Transport Safety Bureau|date=March 2000|ISBN=0-642-27466-5|accessdate=2008-11-16}}
15. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.railwaymuseum.org.au/history3.html|title=ARHS Railway Museum: History 1950 - now|publisher=www.railwaymuseum.org.au|accessdate=2008-11-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070208193612/http://www.railwaymuseum.org.au/history3.html|archive-date=8 February 2007|dead-url=yes|df=dmy-all}}
16. ^{{cite magazine|author=Peter Attenborough|date=February 2006|title=Colin Rees Transport (CRT)|magazine=Australian Model Railway Magazine|volume=22|issue=256|page=37}}
17. ^QR National/Interail Trackside
18. ^"SCT Logistics gains part of Toll's rail divestments" Rail Express.com.au 16 February 2007
19. ^SCT secure PN starter kit Rail Express Issue 77 March 2007
20. ^"SCT launches G class Kevin Sheedy Express" Railway Digest September 2007 Page 5
21. ^"Linx Rail, new operator, takes over Port Botany - Enfield - Carrington service" Railway Digest May 2018 page 6
22. ^{{cite book|author=Railmac Publications|title=Australian Fleetbooks: V/Line locomotives|publisher=Kitchner Press|year=1992|isbn=0-949817-76-7}}
23. ^http://www.auscisionmodels.com.au/G%20Class%20Locomotive%20%28Series%201%29.htm
24. ^{{cite web| url=http://www.austrains.com.au/gclass.html| title=Austrains G Class Diesel Loco - Upcoming| website=Austrains}}
25. ^{{cite web| url=http://www.powerline.com.au/archive/locomotive.pdf| title=Locomotives| website=Powerline}}

External links

  • {{commons category-inline|V/Line G class diesel locomotives|V/Line G class}}
  • Australian Road & Track Magazine, June 1992 Going Loco: Track Test of V/Line loco G517
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