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030411 11001896 viewsKimba, rail recovery winch waggon EZWL 2, built using underframe of broad gauge horse box BH 4331. To Eyre Peninsula 1992, recoded then from AZWL.
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030411 11004094 viewsKimba, rail transport waggon ENFR 2, originally built as 40' flat waggon NRF 900 in 1943. Transferred to Eyre Peninsula in 1984 and recoded to ENFR in 1985. Scrapped here at Kimba in 2005.
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030411 11010691 viewsKimba, station yard view looking south, point level is covered to allow road vehicles to travel over it as a tractor is sometimes used for shunting. The loadout spouts are evident along with the Ascom loadout silo and horizontal bunker beyond that.
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030411 11021695 viewsKimba, rail recovery winch waggon EZWL 2, built using underframe of broad gauge horse box BH 4331. To Eyre Peninsula 1992, recoded then from AZWL. Scrapped in 2005.
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030411 11022791 viewsKimba, rail recovery winch waggon EZWL 2, shows cabin mounted above motor and winch, built using underframe of broad gauge horse box BH 4331. To Eyre Peninsula 1992, recoded then from AZWL. Scrapped in 2005.
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030411 110259104 viewsKimba, view looking south with rail stockpile, silos and loadout bin with rail transport train on the left, station building can be just made out, crew barracks middle of frame in the distance.
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030411 11052384 viewsKimba, concrete pre-fab station building doors.
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030411 11054492 viewsKimba, station building with AN station sign, modern concrete pre-fab building style.
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030411 11055484 viewsKimba, yard view looking south, mainline on the right, Ascom loadout gantry and silo with horizontal bunker beyond that. Eyre Highway grade crossing in the distance.
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030411 11060983 viewsKimba, view looking south of the Ascom Jumbo style silo complex, truck discharge on the left, outloading spout and silo over rail, horizontal bunker behind.
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030411 11081194 viewsKimba, looking south across the Eyre Highway grade crossing, the grain road has to use hand signals, the mainline has a coloured light, one of only three such signals on the Eyre Peninsula system, the others being at Kyancutta and Port Lincoln.
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030411 11082390 viewsKimba, looking south across the Eyre Highway grade crossing, the mainline has a coloured light signal, one of only three such signals on the Eyre Peninsula system, the others being at Kyancutta and Port Lincoln.
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030411 14110995 viewsNunjikompita, aboriginal word for 'burnt hair', located 357.6 km, terminus of line from 14th August 1914 until Thevenard extension opened on the 8th of February 1915, yard overview looking east from the western end of the yard. Concrete silo block 3 is closet to camera.
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030411 14134282 viewsNunjikompita, aboriginal word for 'burnt hair', located , terminus of line from 14th August 1914 until Thevenard extension opened on the 8th of February 1915, 'station' shelter shed, consignment register desk still in situ.
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030411 14135584 viewsNunjikompita, aboriginal word for 'burnt hair', station sign attached to shelter shed.
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030411 141404303 viewsNunjikompita, front view of 'station' shelter shed, the door on the left used to house the control telephone.
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030411 14150392 viewsNunjikompita, yard view looking east, concrete silo block 2, then 1, then a horizontal bunker then an Ascom style silo with loadout spout and silo.
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030411 14173295 viewsNunjikompita, yard view looking west, Ascom style silo with loadout spout and silo, then a horizontal bunker and concrete silos. The truck unloading point is on the right of the silos.
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030411 14180192 viewsNunjikompita, looking east from the east end of the yard, W whistle or horn post for grade crossing of Nunyah Road in the distance.
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030411 142235101 viewsNunjikompita, yard or station location sign, located about a kilometre out from the actual location. Fresh ballast is on the line.
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