Re: going off to training camps -WWI

Thanks to all that have responded.

I suspect we may very well have moved some military gear on the 3'6" here in Australia during WWII as the only State that was all standard gauge (4'8 1/2") was NSW, whilst Victoria and parts of South Australia were on the broad gauge (5'3").

The rest of the country was generally all 3'6" for State run railways - Queensland, Northern Territory, Western Australia, Tasmania and large parts of South Australia - with 2'6" lines in Victoria.

I'm yet to find any evidence that moving heavy military gear on our narrow gauge was ever the case - given our narrow gauge railways by and large were very lightweight relative to the standard and broad gauge lines in the 1940s, they were probably not have been up to task to handle the weights involved for moving tanks.

And as result of the lack of motive power on the narrow gauge Australia wide we even had to design our own Garratt during the war - this, ASG33/Fyansford Cement Works #3, is the last survivor of the class and is currently under restoration at my railway:



And just to show there is a prototype for almost everything (and the reverse of what I have been asking about) - an M31 ARV hauling a locomotive!

Anyone know what class locomotive it is? (Or what the town might be?)




Regards,

David Price
Former President & Chairman - The Bellarine Railway (11 mile 3'6" gauge line)
bellarinerailway.com.au/our-trains/

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The Bellarine Railway (ABN 72 004 819 130) is operated by the Geelong Steam Preservation Society (ACN 004 819 130)