Riverina Express - Jim Powe Collection

This silent footage takes us back to 1964 and shows 3803 doing what it was designed to do best – travel at speed. It's hauling one of the premier passenger trains of the day, the Riverina Express.

The footage is a valuable record of the journey between Junee and Cootamundra in New South Wales before the service was dieselised in May 1964. At Cootamundra 3803 is replaced by a diesel locomotive to continue the journey to Sydney.

Jim Powe (1934–2009) travelled all over Australia to document train and tram journeys and shot this footage on 16mm film in colour.

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Jim Powe and the Powe Family