8606 Moves To Hornsby

SETS' most recent acquisition, electric locomotive 8606, was moved from it's old home at Lithgow Locomotive Maintenance Centre to Hornsby Maintenance Centre on Monday 31st March 2003. The movement was run as train number X750, and your website editor was on board to take photographs of the event. A number of these images are presented below. Click on the thumbnail images to view the full size image. Photographs taken on Monday 31st March 2003 by Matthew Doyle unless specified.

Another long wait was taken at Epping, as our destination was not yet ready for our arrival. During this time a number of passenger trains passed 8606, barely attracting the attention the patrons on board. In this view, an un-targetted V-set rockets through Epping, having already stopped at Eastwood, bound for the Central Coast.
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