Passing Trains --South Maitland Railways Limited East Greta Station 1928

摘要

During the 1960s, whilst exploring the ruins of East Greta station on the South Maitland Railway, I came across a 1928 Train Register among the debris on the floor of the signal box. Extracts from the tattered pages make interesting reading and recently, before consigning it to the rubbish, I copied some of the details.These provide an interesting summary of the traffic handled, the composition of trains being more closely described than was the practice in government railway train registers. Similarly, the use by the SMR of the locomotive number to represent the train, permits educated guesses regarding the sequence of train working.