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Another image from the archives! The 46 class locomotive. In the December 2009 issue of Railway Digest magazine, author Stephen Miller recounts his childhood memories in the 1980s of the 46 class locomotives lifting tonnage on the Blue Mountains railway line, and of visiting Valley Heights loco depot where the 46s were maintained. It brought back memories of my own 1980s teenage experiences of 46s on the Main Northern Line through my 'home town' of Cheltenham. 
The image at left depicts three 46s, the first in the unique-46-class 'custard' variant of the Reverse Indian Re, the second in reasonably fresh "Candy Stripe" and the third in a very dirty, almost black-weathered, Indian Red livery. I used to ride my push-bike and later drive to this location to get shots of trains. In the distance at right is the bush-like back part of Cheltenham Girls' High School: the road between it and the railway reserve is The Crescent. I accessed the line from Sutherland Rd. Notable about this train is that it is a mixed consist, with containers (aka intermodal traffic), box cars (ie louvre vans in Aussie lingo) and car carriers. As an aside, a parishioner at Lithgow shared how when he worked on the railways in this period the yardmaster at Lithgow never had to buy tyres, but lots of new cars transported by rail arrived at their destinations with scungy old tyres on them! No wonder the railways lost the traffic! More 46 class locomotives can be viewed on my flickr set here.
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