"Mini Profile Series - On Shed at Dynon"
By Steve McNicol
Paperback cover 24 pages colour & black/white photos
INTRODUCTION
Up until the mid 1970s each state operated its own railway system and in doing so they had vastly different locomotive designs. With the coming of the diesel age some locomotive types could be found on more than one railway system but they still had a distinctive look as each had its own colour scheme.
By 1979 the South Australian and Tasmanian railway systems had become part of the recently formed Australian National Railways and in August that year the first interstate through the workings of locomotives occurred between Melbourne and Adelaide. C class locomotives C505 and C506 hauled the first train right through to Adelaide and heralded a new era between South Australia and Victoria where locomotives were not confined within their own borders.