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Echuca Overlander - Now to Swan Hill - 6th May 2017

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      Loco Administrator Railpage 2 Developer

    Location: Melbourne
    Echuca Overlander, now destined for Swan Hill
    Saturday 6th May 2017

    Due to V/Line track works on the Echuca Line, Steamrail's planned tour to Echuca on the 6th May is no longer able to reach Echuca, since this tour begins at Castlemaine using carriages from the Victorian Goldfields Railway, after consulting with booked passengers Steamrail have decided to run the train to Swan Hill instead on the same day.

    This is a longer tour but we are keeping the prices the same. Due to the extra distance, Steamrail are transferring R711 to Castlemaine to operate this tour instead of K153. Tour options have also changed.

    Online bookings have resumed, book via https://www.trybooking.com/OUIC
    Posted: 07 Apr 2017 11:48

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      8077 Chief Train Controller

    Location: Crossing the Rubicon
    Was this maintenance shutdown scheduled and they did not tell Steamrail?
    Posted: 07 Apr 2017 18:13
      Valvegear Oliver Bullied, CME

    Location: Norda Fittazroy
    Anyone want to bet against rail works beginning on the Swan Hill line on Friday 5th May?
    Posted: 07 Apr 2017 18:27
      mikesyd Chief Commissioner

    Location: Lurking
    Was this maintenance shutdown scheduled and they did not tell Steamrail?
    8077
    LX issues.

    https://www.railpage.com.au/f-t11386211.htm
    Posted: 07 Apr 2017 21:02
      Carnot Minister for Railways

    It's been many decades since R711 (1960s?) ventured to Swan Hill. Great value for money and I'm going (was planning on going on Echuca trip anyway).
    Posted: 08 Apr 2017 07:58
      YM-Mundrabilla Minister for Railways

    Location: Mundrabilla but I'd rather be in Narvik
    Anyone want to bet against rail works beginning on the Swan Hill line on Friday 5th May?
    Valvegear
    Not 'rail works' - 'operational requirements' only ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
    Posted: 08 Apr 2017 10:02

    Last edited by YM-Mundrabilla on 08 Apr 2017 10:03; edited 1 time in total
      Highrailer Assistant Commissioner

    Location: Somewhere out on the track......anywhere around the country
    My household booked 1st class for this to go to Echuca.
    Now its changed to Swan Hill at no extra cost, longer trip and ive never travelled this line before so its a double bonus for us here.
    Posted: 08 Apr 2017 12:02
      Galron Chief Commissioner

    Location: Werribee, Vic
    one assumes a working turntable at Swan Hill at present? or they going to bring a T along, or run tender first back to Bendigo?
    Posted: 08 Apr 2017 12:05
      Carnot Minister for Railways

    Turntable is operational. Has been used for several SRV and Dermpav tours in recent years.
    Posted: 08 Apr 2017 14:13
      N463 Locomotive Driver

    Turntable is operational. Has been used for several SRV and Dermpav tours in recent years.
    Carnot

    Why would Dermpav need the turntable?
    I would have thought they would just change ends in the DERM.

    N463
    Posted: 10 Apr 2017 20:37