Pilbara Railways Image Collection

The entire photo collection of images scanned from negatives and slides and digital images.


Home Login
Album list Last uploads Last comments Most viewed Top rated My Favourites Search
Most viewed
070530_9592.jpg
070530 9592426 viewsWOB type iron ore waggon WOB 31380 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 305 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations on a loaded train at Binduli, 30th May 2007.
030407_100630.jpg
030407 100630426 viewsMinnipa, as the front portion shunts away, the make-up of the consist is plain to see. HAN class bogie grain waggon HAN 41, a HBN bogie grain - ballast waggon, and then a motley collection of ENHV, HAN, HBN, HCN and ENHG to round out the consist. 7th April, 2003.
030409_115600.jpg
030409 115600426 viewsDarke Peake, at the 195 km Dog Fence Road grade crossing loaded grain train with 830 class unit 851 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 84137, 851 has spent its entire operating career on the Eyre Peninsula, leads fellow 830 class 842 serial 84140 and a rebuilt unit DA 4, rebuilt from 830 class unit 839 by Port Augusta Workshops, retains original serial 83730 and model DL531 with the first twelve waggons behind the locos XNW type.
030411_110216.jpg
030411 110216426 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.
030411_154043.jpg
030411 154043426 viewsWirrulla , yard overview looking south from the grain road points, horizontal bunker with two blocks of concrete silos on the left.
060108_2066.jpg
060108 2066426 viewsLock, ARG 1200 class unit 1204, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-428, final of fourteen originally built between 1960-65 for WAGR as their A class A 1514, fitted with dynamic brakes and financed by Western Mining Corporation, started on the Eyre Peninsula in August 2004.
060108_2085.jpg
060108 2085426 viewsLock, grain train loading almost completed as 830 class unit 851 an AE Goodwin built ALCo DL531 model serial 84137 and repainted into Australian Railroad Group livery with EMD 1200 class unit 1204 and sister 830 class 842 prepare their train for departure. 8th January 2006.
060111_2299.jpg
060111 2299426 viewsLock, 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 with two ALCO units 850 and 905 drag their grain train over the grade past the location sign and down into Lock. 11th January 2006.
060111_2350.jpg
060111 2350426 viewsKyancutta, empty grain waggons being shunted, SAR Islington Workshops built HAN type bogie wheat waggons HAN 34 with ANR logo, while HAN 15 still has the SAR logo. 11th January 2006.
060113_2501.jpg
060113 2501426 viewsKevin, empty train 6DD3 on the stub of the now closed line to Penong shunts back onto the triangle leg to reverse the train prior to loading. 13th January 2006.
060113_2509.jpg
060113 2509426 viewsKevin, empty train 6DD3 shunts back onto the triangle leg behind triple NJ/1600 class units, Clyde Engineering built EMD JL22C models, originally coded the NJ class and built for the Central Australia Railway in 1971, transferred to the Eyre Peninsula in 1981 and recoded to the 1600 class. 13th January 2006.
060113_2587.jpg
060113 2587426 viewsCeduna, or Denial Bay area, empty gypsum train 6DD5 blasts up hill at the 440 km, west of Carpenter Corner Rd with power from triple 1600/NJ class units 1604, NJ 3 and 1601. 1601 in Australian Railroad Group livery is a Clyde Engineering built EMD JL22C model serial 71-728, originally built as NJ class NJ 1. Location approximation. 13th January 2006.
130705_0524.jpg
130705 0524426 viewsLock, HCN type bogie grain hopper waggon HCN 39, originally an NHB type hopper NHB 1573 built by Tulloch Ltd for the Commonwealth Railways North Australia Railway. One of forty rebuilt by Islington Workshops 1978-79 to the HCN type with a 36 ton rating, increased to 40 tonnes in 1984. Fitted with a Moose Metalworks roll-top cover. 5th July 2013.
130708_0719.jpg
130708 0719426 viewsCharra,
060528_4444.jpg
060528 4444426 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ECA 98 a former Commonwealth Railways ARF type first class air conditioned sleeper with rounded observation end built by Wegmann and delivered in 1956, converted to BB type with observation end removed in August 1972, converted to crew car in 1991.
060528_4509_WTEY7310T.jpg
060528 4509 WTEY7310T426 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, WTEY 7310 fuel tanker, originally an NTAF type tanker, in BP service.
060603_5242.jpg
060603 5242426 viewsMidland, WQDY 30720 one of about sixteen WBAX vans converted for sodium cyanide container traffic, originally built by WAGR Midland Workshops as one of seventy five WV/X type covered vans in 1967-68, converted 1989 to WQDF, then WQDY, with two AGR empty sodium cyanide tanktainers SD 635 and SD 655.
060603_5250_ATTY30674F.jpg
060603 5250 ATTY30674F426 viewsMidland, ATTY 30674 fuel tank waggon, one of five built by AE Goodwin NSW in 1970 as WST class, recoded to WSTY and then ATTY. 78600 litre capacity.
070527_9223.jpg
070527 9223426 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, OPC 397, originally built by South Australian Railways Islington Workshops in 1963 as an 8300 class brake van numbered 8349 on broad gauge, recoded in 1982 to AVAY 50, to standard gauge in Feb 1983 as AVAY 397, converted to AZXP accident van in Feb 1986 and then in Feb 1993 recoded to OPC.
070609_0205.jpg
070609 0205426 viewsMidland, ABAY 30925 covered goods waggon originally built by Mechanical Handling Ltd SA as part of a third batch of one hundred and thirty five WVX type covered vans, recoded to WBAX in 1979, in 1985 to WBNX, then in 1995 to RBPX.
19088 files on 955 page(s) 391

Set Back to Pilbara Yard / Photo Gallery / Blog / Departure Yard / BHP Road / Fortescue Metals Road / Rio Tinto Road / Roy Hill Road / Comalco Siding
Your IP address is: Website and all images are © 1997-2025 www.pilbararailways.com.au Contact Us
Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional