On the 31st of July 2021, Steamrail Victoria were planned to run their Eureka Express tour to Ballarat from Melbourne with return using locomotives R711 and R761. Due to the 2 week lockdown in Victoria in days prior the train wasn’t able to run due to passenger limits. Using the path and timetable they had been given by V/line, SRV used the opportunity to run a driver training train with V/line. The train consisted of steam locomotive R761 as well as 2 V/Line H set passenger cars, a total of 6 passenger carriages. A steam locomotive has not hauled a V/line train with passenger cars since 1998 making this the first time in 23 years of a V/Line and SRV driver training run.

In the morning R761 ran light engine to southern cross and then coupled up to the carriages. It ran to Ballarat making a stop for around an hour at Ballan to cross 2 regular V/Line services before getting to Ballarat and was turned around on the turntable at the Ballarat East Depot.

Spots in the video
Southern Cross
Pawarn Curves
Bank Box (viewed from Bacchus Marsh)
Ballarat

31/07/2021

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