Every Easter thousands of runners and athletics fans from all over Australia and all points of the globe make the annual pilgrimage to Central Park in Stawell for one of the world’s most famous and prestigious foot races, the Stawell Gift.
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| The Stawell Gift special snakes its way through Ballarat yard. The special is hauled by B69 with a consist of BWL-BS-BRS-AS-CD. W250 and Y150 are on yard pilot duties. |
In 1984 V/Line ran a special to transport patrons to the event as the Central Park is only a short walk from Stawell railway station. To reach Stawell before the first of the races, the special departed Spencer Street at 6:35am. Running via 'the Straight', the special had scheduled stops at Melton, Bacchus Marsh and Ballan, Ballarat, Beaufort and Ararat, reaching Stawell at 9:50am.
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| B69 emerges from beneath the Armstrong Street Bridge with a special for the Stawell Gift. |
The special was hauled by B69 with a consist of BWL-BS-BRS-AS-CD. The inclusion of the BWL in the consist was the first use of a wooden bodied passenger car on a service west of Ballarat since December 1983. The return service departed Stawell at 4:05pm reaching Melbourne at 7:10pm.
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| B69 crosses Doveton Street with the Special for the Stawell Gift. |
The winner of the 120m feature race in 1984 was P.G Singleton from Jiliby NSW with a time of 11.95 seconds.
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| A CD and AS bring up the rear of the Special for the Stawell Gift. |
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