Train Enthusiast's Video Diary 1991-06-08 Lyndoch Horse Shoe Curve

In June 1991, SteamRail (Victoria, Australia) ran a 5 day "weekender" broad-gauge tourist train to South Australia hauled by their steam locomotive R766 while the opportunity still existed before conversion of the main line between Melbourne (Victoria) and Adelaide (South Australia) from broad-gauge to standard-gauge was implemented, and making such a broad-gauge journey no longer possible. (As it turned out, conversion was not completed until June 1995.)

See "Train Enthusiast's Video Diary 1991-06-07" which captured snippets of activities over the five days, which commenced on Friday June 7th 1991 and concluded on Tuesday June 11th 1991.

However, this particular video relates to a specific part of the activities on Saturday June 8th 1991, when SteamRanger Tourism and SteamRail ran a tourist train from Adelaide Terminal to Nuriootpa (South Australia) and return, hauled double-headed by their respective steam locomotive 520 "Sir Malcolm Barclay-Harvey" leading and R766 "City of Bendigo" supporting.

This video clip captures the train negotiating the horse-shoe curve at Lyndoch in the Barossa Valley; and to highlight the photo/video opportunity, the train was reversed down hill to re-negotiate the climb from a standing stop.

(NOTE: with the demise of the daily "Penrice Stony Train" from Penrice Quarry, Angaston, South Australia, to the Penrice Soda Products Plant at Osborne, South Australia, the opportunity to video a train on this horse-shoe curve is now highly unlikely.)
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