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100822 6260144 viewsWOB type iron ore waggon WOB 31393 is one of a batch of twenty five built by Comeng WA between 1974 and 1975 and converted from Mt Newman high sided waggons by WAGR Midland Workshops with a capacity of 67 tons with fleet number 318 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations. This waggon was also converted to a WSM type ballast hopper by re-fitting the cut down top section and having bottom discharge doors fitted, converted back to WOB in 1998, on empty train 1416 at Hampton, 22nd August 2010.
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060528 4566144 viewsWOC type iron ore waggon WOC 31341 is leader of a batch of thirty built by Goninan WA between October 1997 to January 1998 with fleet number 401 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, 28th May 2006.
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060528 4573144 viewsWO type iron ore waggon WO 31260 is one of a batch of sixty two built by Goninan WA between April and August 2000 with serial number 950086-010 and fleet number 146 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, and is a Goninan built replacement WO type waggon that replaces the original WAGR built WO type waggon with the newer style WOD type and has square features opposed to the curved ones as on the original WO class. Bonnie Vale, 28th May 2006.
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030405 140546144 viewsKyancutta, yard view looking south along the narrow gauge mainline with the siding point levers and indicators with the Eyre Highway grade crossing and one of only two electrically lit signals on the Eyre Peninsula Division. The cast iron 'Yard Limit' sign can be made out in the distance, 5th April 2003.
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030405 161744144 viewsLock, capacity sign mounted on former yard crane indicating 5 tons and the radius of the jib. 5th April 2003.
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030406 093000144 viewsYeelanna, station located at the 81.7 km, original terminus of line in April 1909, then junction for line to Mount Hope in October 1914. Station yard overview from the south end looking north, points, lever and indicator for the grain siding with concrete silo complexes in the background. The branch line to Kapinnie and former Mount Hope is just visible through the trees on the raised embankment. 6th April 2003.
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030406 095220144 viewsCummins, second hand train control shed and waiting shelter sitting on the site of the former gangers trolley shed. 6th April 2003.
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030406 095704144 viewsCummins, yard view looking south, Buckleboo line - siding converging with mainline in the middle with grain siding on the right. Train control concrete booth on the left, Railway Tce grade crossing, green possible former fertiliser shed. 6th April 2003.
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030406 100746144 viewsCummins, grain bunker rail unloading facility with dual DOH 'Drive Over Hopper' and stackers for loading road vehicles. 6th April 2003.
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030406 100902144 viewsCummins, view of the grain bunker rail unloading facility with dual DOH 'Drive Over Hopper' and stackers for loading road vehicles and with the original overhead outflow bin and feed conveyor for loading rail waggons. 6th April 2003.
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030407 085902144 viewsYaninee, station yard overview looking south for the north end, concrete SACBH silo complexes, points, lever and indicator, train control booth and shelter visible on the left. 7th April, 2003.
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030407 100834144 viewsMinnipa, empty grain train shunts back into the grain siding with a trio of former Australian National Co-Co locomotives with rebuilt former AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 830 class ex 839, serial no. 83730, rebuilt by Port Augusta Workshops to DA class, leading two AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 830 class units 842, serial no. 84140 and 851 serial no. 84137, 851 having been on the Eyre Peninsula since delivered in 1962. 7th April, 2003.
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030407 105637144 viewsPoochera, track and side view of loaded SAR Islington Workshops built HAN type bogie wheat waggon HAN 3, note spoked wheel on right hand bogie. 7th April 2003.
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030411 110609144 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 141355144 viewsNunjikompita, aboriginal word for 'burnt hair', station sign attached to shelter shed.
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030411 142313144 viewsNunjikompita, a section where new ballast has started about a kilometre east of the yard.
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030411 154310144 viewsWirrulla, loading ramp located on the grain loop, south end.
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060109 2119144 viewsKyancutta, 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 they shunt across Museum Terrace to place empty grain waggons on the silo loop. 9th January 2006.
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060111 2409144 viewsWudinna, ARG 1200 class unit 1203, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-427, one of fourteen originally built between 1960-65 for WAGR as their A class A 1513, fitted with dynamic brakes and financed by Western Mining Corporation, started working on the Eyre Peninsula in November 2004, 1203 and two ALCo units 850 and 905 shunt back down the mainline at Wudinna as they run round their consist. 11th January 2006.
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060113 2504144 viewsKevin, view looking from the Penong end of Kevin with the goods siding points and indicator besides narrow gauge loco 1604 as it leads NJ 3 and 1601 with empty train 6DD3 as they reverse around the triangle to position the train for loading back on the mainline to Thevenard. 13th January 2006.
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