MORNINGTON RAILWAY
NEWS and COMING EVENTS:

  Next Running Day -
- Sunday 19th May


  Running Days for June 2013
- Sunday 2nd June
- Sunday 9th June
- Sunday 16th June

  Little Toots Club - an email club for kids from 4 to 16 years
  Video Clips - go to the K163 Page
  6BCPL - (McDonald's Car) has been moved
from storage for renovation as a
static car at Moorooduc Station

Please come and visit us!

Mornington Railway is a heritage broadgauge railway operating in the Mornington Peninsula between Moorooduc and Mornington.

We have both Steam and Diesel heritage broadgauge locomotives and heritage passenger cars.

Runningdays are normally the first three Sundays of each month.

Please telephone our message line on 1300 767 276, or use the email form on our "Contact Us" page if you have any queries.

We would welcome enquiries regarding positions on our volunteer staff - see our page on "Volunteers"



K163

Classification

K class Wheel arrangement: 2-8-0. Designed for branch lines.
Coupled wheel diameter: 4ft. 6ins. or 1.37m.
Cylinders: 20ins. or 508mm x 26ins. or 660mm stroke
Total heating surface: 1,741sq ft. or 176.8 sq m
Grate area: 25.75 sq ft, or 2,062 sq m.
Boiler pressure: 175psi or 1295kpa.
Engine weight: 62.35 tons or 63.4 tonnes
Tender weight: 42.68 tonnes.
Tender coal capacity: 5 tons or 5.1 tonnes.
Tender water capacity: 4,200 gallons or 19,093 litres
Length: 59ft. or 18.1m.
Capable of 45mph or 73 kph


 K163 HISTORY

 Built at Newport in 1941.
 Declared unserviceable in December 1968, at Ararat.
 Sold to Frankston Apex Club in November 1973.
 Sold to Mornington Railway Preservation Socitey in 1984.
 Boiler Certificate granted while in Jubilee Park, Frankston in July 1985.
 Moved to Cresco sidings, Hastings in November 1985.
 Moved under its own power in August 1986, driven by the late Alan Blatchford and Fireman, Ron Picking.
 Fully restored in May 1987. Willy Trueman as Team Leader. In service for the Mornington Preservation Society, on the main line at Cerberus and Moorooduc since that time.

K163 was fully overhauled in 2010 and fitted with the restored boiler from K191 by members of the Mornington Railway Engineering team headed by Gerald Spoor and Peter Reyment.

K163 around the railway
Photos from 2010/2011
VIDEOS
Video No. 1 - Maiden Trip for K163 after restoration on 2010-11-02 taken at Mooroduc Workshop and then at the run-around at Mornington
Video No. 2 - Maiden Trip for K163 after restoration on 2010-11-02 taken at Tanti Station crossing Bungower Road
Video No. 3 - K163s 70th Birthday celebrated 2011-03-20
Video No. 4 - During maintenance we need to shunt K163 within the Moorooduc Station area. To do this we use our Track Chief TC1 - video taken 5th April 2011.