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030409 145852367 viewsUngarra, located at the 108.1 km and opened in March 1913 as the temporary terminus till July 1913. Yard overview looking south from the goods and grain loop points, loading ramp can be made out in front of car, silo complex, station hut then the horizontal grain bunker on the right.

030414 163944367 viewsKevin, looking south at the gypsum plant, the triangle can be seen branching off on the right, loop on the left, the mainline to Penong continues on behind the camera.

060109 2101367 viewsKyancutta, Kyancutta Tanks Rd grade crossing, ASR 830 class unit 842, an AE Goodwin built ALCo DL531 model loco serial 84140 leads EMD unit 1204 due to air-conditioning trouble and sister ALCo 851 as the empty north bound grain train pauses for a crew change. 9th January 2006.

060117 2713367 viewsBardoc, AQNY 32179, one of sixty two waggons built by Goninan WA in 1998 as WQN type for Murrin Murrin container traffic, with sulphur skips S56 and S173 both with original style sliding tarpaulins, train 2029 loaded Malcolm freighter.

191-04367 viewsSeymour station, rationalised yard, V/Line A class unit A 66 Clyde Engineering EMD rebuild model AAT22C-2R serial 84-1186 leads T class T 410 with a stabled down Wodonga goods train.

160101 9776367 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, asbestos mining remains, mine drive adit No.6 concrete entry structure. Geodata.

160103 DJI 0064367 viewsColonial Mill and mine ruins located within Wittenoom Gorge. A number of mine adits or entry points are visible on this level along with the large amount of tailings, office structures and railway points and track visible. See images of the site intact here , 194-08 shows the sealed red entry point. Geodata: -22.314205, 118.317905.

160522 2180367 viewsParkeston, 6MP4 intermodal train, RRAY 7232 platform 5 of 5-pack articulated skel waggon set, 1 of 100 built by ABB Engineering NSW 1996-2000, 40' flatrack with chlorine gas cylinders.

160525 4565367 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3PG1 which operates from Perth to Parkes NSW (Goobang Junction), ARFY type ARFY 2253 refrigerated van with a Ballarat built Maxi-CUBE fibreglass body that has been fitted to an Comeng Victoria built ROX type flat waggon from 1970 that was in service with Commonwealth Railways and recoded to AQOY.

160526 5343367 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, SCT train 3MP9 operating from Melbourne to Perth, PBGY type covered van PBGY 0073 Multi-Freighter, one of eighty two waggons built by Queensland Rail Redbank Workshops in 2005.

161111 2454367 viewsBinduli, Kalgoorlie Freighter train 5025, waggon AQHY 30096 loaded with two Cockburn Cement ITVU type 20' tanktainers IVTU 274016[1] and 274009[5]. AQHY 30096 originally built by the WAGR Midland Workshops in 1964/66 as a WF type flat waggon, then in 1997, following several recodes and modifications, was one of seventy five waggons converted to the WQH type to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth/Kwinana.

030416 110330367 viewsHere we are at a siding on the Tarcoola - Alice Springs railway line, Manguri which is 200 km north of Tarcoola and 40 km from Coober Pedy, loading platform on the left. As you can see the track was a bit wet. 16th April 2003. GeoData location. 16th April 2003.

040412 144500367 viewsNelson Point, Comeng WA built ore waggon 2257 one of 183 waggons built in 1970, view of handbrake end. 12th April 2004.

6984 001367 viewsWelshpool, Goninan Open Day 27th August, 1988. New GE 7FDL-16 prime mover awaiting fitting to one of the new CM39-8 units.
Jim Bisdee photo.

172-02366 viewsSunshine, broad gauge Melbourne metropolitan electric service operated by 'The Met', this up Hitachi 6 car 'spark' or electric train rounds the curve east of Sunshine as it heads to Tottenham, signal post 49 controls up trains on the Sunshine - Newport Loop Line, with the disc controlling access to the GEB sidings, the points facing the camera leads to the main running lines and the Sunshine yard or what remained of it.

177-21366 viewsGheringhap, down V/Line broad gauge goods train to Adelaide 9169 with the quad power combo of a pair of Australian National BL class locomotives BL 27 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 83-1011 and class leader BL 26 'Bob Hawke' serial 83-1010 and V/Line S class S 313 'Alfred Deakin' Clyde Engineering EMD model A7 serial 61-230 and X class X 53 Clyde Engineering EMD model G26C serial 75-800, BL 27 had Paul Keating drawn on the LHS cab as it was just after he'd taken the Labor Party leadership and the Prime Ministership off Bob Hawke.

166-04366 viewsAlbury, V/Line broad gauge A class A 70 Clyde Engineering EMD model AAT22C-2R serial 84-1187 rebuilt from B class B 70 Clyde Engineering EMD model ML2 serial ML2-11, having run round the consist, A 70 sits on the point at the Victorian platform with an up passenger train to Melbourne.

162-2-12366 viewsSouth Dynon Motive Power Depot, standard gauge turntable, radial roads and pit, V/Line locomotives lined up are Y class Y 102 Clyde Engineering EMD model G6B serial 63-292, Y class leader Y 101 serial 63-291, X class X 37 Clyde Engineering EMD model G26C serial 70-700 and C class C 504 Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 76-827. PTC Open Day.

107-27366 viewsEchuca station yard overview, looking north from Sidings A, Freightgate canopy, yard crane. goods shed, station building, water tower and loco shed.