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B Class Co-Co diesel electric

The B class were the Victorian Railways' first diesels, and were built by Clyde Engineering in Sydney. In 1952, the delivery run of the class leader, B60, made history when it hauled a goods train over the standard gauge from Sydney to Wondonga, where it was bogie exchanged for the run to Melbourne. This was the first time in Australia that a single engine had worked over multiple gauges.

The B class displaced the R class from The Overland and the S class from The Spirit of Progress, the chief VR express passenger trains, and led directly to the withdrawal of the H class and S class steam locomotives.

B61

Image : dir=vic/dBclass/ page=index 42350 bytes, 539x352 pixels Date : 1998, catalogued 28 Aug 2000 Photographer : ? Medium : Description : A pair of West Coast Railway B class at Spencer Street

B74

Image : dir=vic/dBclass/ page=index 106022 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : 1 Apr 1995 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Description : B74 runs around her train, ready to pull a special to Bendigo, while N470 waits to depart with a Geelong passenger.

B75

Image : dir=vic/dBclass/ page=index 45932 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : 18 Jul 1992, catalogued 25 Nov 2000 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 18625 Description : B75 idles at Spencer Street Station, waiting to depart with an excursion train to Wagunyah.

Image : dir=vic/dBclass/ page=index 71124 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : 18 Jul 1992, catalogued 25 Nov 2000 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 18626 Description : B75 performs for a photo stop near Seymour. Pity the sun didn't perform as well!

Image : dir=vic/dBclass/ page=index 78959 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : 18 Jul 1992, catalogued 25 Nov 2000 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 18628 Description : B75 approaching Euroa (?), and evidence of a once more extensive railway system.

Image : dir=vic/dBclass/ page=index 193349 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : 18 Jul 1992, catalogued 03 Dec 2000 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : colour print Description : B75 approaching Euroa (?), and evidence of a once more extensive railway system. Same photo location as B75-2

Image : dir=vic/dBclass/ page=index 142805 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : 18 Jul 1992, catalogued 03 Dec 2000 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : colour print Description : same photo location as B75-3 , but on print film. Demonstrates the latitude of colour print versus colour slide film, rather, doesn't it?

Image : dir=vic/dBclass/ page=index 64606 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : 18 Jul 1992, catalogued 25 Nov 2000 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 18631 Description : B75 and J515 shunt at Springhurst, during a special to Wagunyah.

Image : dir=vic/dBclass/../Jclass/ page=index 82659 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : 18 Jul 1992, catalogued 29 Aug 1997 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : personal photograph (Kodacolor Gold) Description : J515 and B75 at Springhurst.

Image : dir=vic/dBclass/../Jclass/ page=index 52836 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : 18 Jul 1992, catalogued 25 Nov 2000 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 18634 Description : J515 and B75 pose before the grandiloquent water tower at Springhurst

B84

Image : dir=vic/dBclass/ page=index 107825 bytes, pixels Date : Oct 1979 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 8022 Description : B84 with a Gippsland passenger at Caulfield station.

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