4288 x 2848 px | 36,3 x 24,1 cm | 14,3 x 9,5 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
24. August 2014
Ort:
Railway Museum, 136 Railway Parade, Bassendean, Western Australia
Weitere Informationen:
The 1947 preserved Australind buffet car at the Bassendean Railway Museum in Western Australia. The Australind is a passenger rail service operated by Transwa between Perth and Bunbury on the South Western Railway. The train was named to commemorate the city of that name envisioned by Marshal Waller Clifton on Leschenault Inlet 100 years previously. The current hamlet of Australind, a satellite town of Bunbury, has never had a passenger rail service, nor even a railway line. The train departs from Perth Railway Station, the only Transwa train to do so, as all the others run on standard gauge, whereas the Australind uses narrow gauge. The Australind service began on 24 November 1947 and was hauled initially by steam locomotives. With an average speed of 63 km/h, it was the fastest narrow gauge passenger train in Australia. In 1958 X class diesel locomotives took over. On 16 November 1987 the current Diesel Multiple Unit railcars took over the service reducing journey times to 2 hours 30 minutes.
