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Special Photo feature of May 19 2001 special train hauled to Rosebery by steam engine M4 and diesel Y6

Train waiting at West Park Burnie, as passengers board. Special trains that depart for the west coast on Saturdays tend to leave from this section of the western line west of Burnie because of parking problems at the Burnie station.

This is a favourite illusion, the train looks as if it is on a trestle bridge, but it is a West Beach feature, a boardwalk.

Steam over the old EBR yard. The sawtooth roofed building is the workshop for the Melba line diesel hydraulics.

At the Brooklyn road level crossing. The steep climb to Ridgley begins here.

Near Surrey road.

The local fire brigade help all steam excursions with water at Ridgley.

Some of the coal being trucked to Rosebery for the return run was offloaded here at Ridgley.

Between Ridgley and Goodwood the line passes through North Forests' extensive plantations.

Not too much of the Melba line is straight, but here near Goodwood is one section.

The train is passing the "new" Goodwood siding, several kilometres south of the previous location

Looming out of the mist, the train has just passed Moory junction where a track branched off to the now disused Hellyer line. The train is about to pass over the highest point of the line 2200ft or 670metres, right underneath the Murchison Highway overpass. Click here for video of this train*

Approaching the overpass.

The overpass, in the rain.

The special arrives. Waiting to cross at Boco siding, this set of locos (1105, 1103, 1002, 1101) on train 72 ex Primrose are the only operable engines available at this time

Leaving Boco.

On the Pieman bridge.

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