Broad Gauge Overland arriving Melbourne 1960s

A short clip from 8mm film of the Broad Gauge overnight Overland express from Adelaide arriving Melbourne 1960s behind X class and S class diesel locomotives which in those times, took over from South Australian Railways locomotives at Serviceton. These were the days of axle generated power before the introduction of power vans for generating the electricity for the train. When the Victorian G class came into service with capabilities of supplying the generation of power for the train, the power vans were taken off and the G class ran all the way through to Adelaide. Also since this was taken, the railway between Melbourne and Adelaide has been converted to standard gauge and runs via North Geelong to Ararat and beyond rather than via Ballarat. The broad gauge between Ballarat and Ararat was out of use for some years until the reintroduction of broad gauge passenger trains. Thus there is a broad gauge and a standard gauge platform at Ararat and broad gauge trains have to negotiate a crossing of the standard gauge via a diamond crossing to access the broad gauge platform.

[@edmundcarew7235]

Great video!

[@AdamAdam-cx6op]

The G class did not have Head End Power. You must have been thinking of the N class....