60861 off the road being lifted back on at Oakleigh Park 1954

I have added 3 never seen before photos given to me by the daughter of the photographer of
60861 off the road being lifted back on at Oakleigh Park 1954 (John Crockford photographer Neil Dimmer & Ian McDonald collections)
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Neil
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2 new photos of 60861 at Oakleigh Park 1954 off the rails
https://railway-photography.smugmug...0871-Built-1939-Darlingt/6085760871/i-KPkTJqR
Another photo though a rather obscure one to say the least view!!!
https://railway-photography.smugmug...0871-Built-1939-Darlingt/6085760871/i-Dpmkpd2

Neil

 

I remember seeing another loco in the same predicament at Oakleigh Park when I was a child in the early 1960's. Just before the station the up goods line merges with the up slow, and any trains on the up goods that passed the protecting signal at danger with the points set in favour of the up slow were directed up quite a steep bank on track that was far from neatly aligned or well supported. The equivalent of a sand drag. The occasion that I observed had the loco still on the rails, the one in these photos seems to have ended up in the dirt - possibly the track may have been extended slightly further between the two events.

I wish that I had more details of the 60's event - I was only 4 or 5, but I suspect that my older brother may have taken a photo. Sadly he passed away a few years ago and I don't know if his enormous collection of not very good railway photos still survives somewhere.

What I do remember was my brother running home and excitedly telling Mum and me that "there's a train on the bank!", at which point we ran around to the station to look. I was wondering on the way "How could a train get up there?", only to find when we got there that it was an earth bank he was talking about, and not the Westminster Bank in the parade of shops facing the railway at that point!

Steve B