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The C Class are a class of diesel locomotive built by Clyde Engineering, Rosewater for the Victorian Railways in 1977/78. ==History== The C class were purchased by the Victorian Railways for heavy freight haulage. They are fitted with safety cabs. Initially the first four were placed on the North East line to haul services from Melbourne to Albury while the latter six were put on the broad gauge to haul services on the Serviceton line. Following upgrades to the infrastructure they were also able to operate on the Ballarat to Geelong line and from January 1982 through to Adelaide with the standard gauge units transferred to the broad gauge. In September 1988, two were transferred back to the standard gauge and began to operate services through to Sydney.〔"C Class" ''Railway Digest'' October 1988 page 378〕〔"C Class" ''Railway Digest'' November 1988 page 406〕 Following the Melbourne-Adelaide railway being closed for gauge conversion, all remaining broad gauge units were converted to standard gauge and operated services from Melbourne to Parkes until the converted line reopened in July 1995. All were transferred by V/Line to National Rail in June 1995.〔(C Class diesel electric locomotives ) Mark Bau's VR website〕 Following the delivery of National Rail's NR class locomotives, the C class were put into storage at Junee Locomotive Depot in 1997 before being moved to Islington Railway Workshops, Adelaide.〔''Railway Digest'' October 1998 page 41〕 Unlike the other locomotives National Rail initially used, ownership of the C class passed to National Rail.〔"One Nation - A retrospective and perspective" ''Railway Digest'' August 1997 page 21〕 In August 1999 two were repainted in National Rail livery and returned to service as Melbourne shunters.〔''Railway Digest'' October 1999 page 4〕 The class was then sold with one going to Seymour Railway Heritage Centre and the other nine to Allco Rail with two leased to Pacific National and seven to Silverton Rail as the Cs class.〔 Following the collapse of Allco Finance they were sold to Chicago Freight Car Leasing Australia and Greentrains and resumed their original identities.〔(C Class (C501 - C510) ) Railpage〕〔(C Class ) Vicsig〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Victorian Railways C class (diesel)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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