A Railway Album

	13A on UP mixed train crossing 8A on down at Belgrave May 1st 1948. Photo: Late J.L.Buckland.
	View of the Gembrook timber sidings and station from the Main Road/Innes Road intersection. This photo from the collection of Ian Barkla is undated. A reference to Mike McCarthy’s article might provide some clues. Note the pine trees in the centre - the juveniles of mature pines that now line the loco road and the trains on Nos. 1 and 2 roads. Photo: Ian Barkla collection
	A leap into the fifties! The U.S. Bus was well into erosion of all but tourist traffic! Here No.8A stands on the site of the original Gembrook loco shed - right opposite the Ranges Hotel. Five years later it was to be transferred to Pasadena Park at Beaumaris. Fifty years after the date of this photo (1950) we will see 8A back in the same position! Photo: Ian Barkla collection
	Here is 8A in its original form, the modified front end with tapered smokestack being fitted in 1923. The location here is uncertain but probably Belgrave around 1920. Photo: Late Douglas Young, Ian Newman Collection
	8A sits forlornly in a partially stripped condition at Newport Workshops on 5/6/37, undergoing a thorough overhaul. Photo: Late W. G. A. Lewis Courtesy ARHS Archives
	Next, two views of Cockatoo, 36 years apart. Here on Sunday 24 September 1961 PBPS volunteers were recovering usable sleepers from the closed track beyond Lakeside prior to dismantling of the old line. Photo: John Thompson
	In September 1997 the scenery has changed and the old truck is replaced with a ute! Our new rails run through the crossing with new flashing lights. This section is to reopen in October 1998. Photo: John Shaw
	A down passenger train possibly bound for Gembrook rolls out of the old Belgrave station yard. The 'chopper' coupling on the loco and the NBH excursion cars dates this scene to between 1919 and 1926 Photo: PBPS Archives, courtesy Alan Schoknecht
	The regular Down Gembrook Mixed with 13A in charge has just conquered the 1 in 30 Emerald Bank and rolls into the Emerald station yard. Sometime in 1945. Photo: PBPS Archives, courtesy PE Hammond
	The main line ran downgrade past the Up home signal and the old timber road bridge (No. 4) spanning the cutting. The broad gauge Met station now occupies this site and a modern concrete arch bridge supports the road. Photo: PBPS Archives, courtesy Alan Schoknecht
	The crew and a passenger on 13A wait for the Guard's 'rightaway' and their departure from Cockatoo onto Gembrook in 1945. Photo: PBPS Archives, courtesy PE Hammond