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030407 094417184 viewsMinnipa, station located at the 253.4 km, opened as terminus in May 1913, became a through station in August 1914. Train control booth and waiting shelter. 7th April, 2003.
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030411 110544184 viewsKimba, station building with AN station sign, modern concrete pre-fab building style.
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030411 110811184 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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060109 2126184 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 empty grain waggons on the silo loop. 9th January 2006.
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060111 2293184 viewsWarrachie, 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 leads an empty grain train between Murdinga and Lock. 11th January 2006.
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060113 2521184 viewsKevin, empty train 6DD3 is heading onto the south leg and original gypsum loading siding to continue the reversing process. 13th January 2006.
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130703 0141184 viewsMurdinga, bogie grain hopper waggon HAN 26, one of sixty eight units built by South Australian Railways Islington Workshops between 1969 and 1973 as the HAN type for the Eyre Peninsula system.
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130705 0512184 viewsLock, grain train loading in progress with the Viterra fast flow auger in the distance, the train with 1203, 846 and 859 is about to split and shunt half the consist onto the mainline. 5th of July 2013.
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130706 0677184 viewsPort Lincoln, looking at the port silo storage facility from Bishop Street.
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130706 0680184 viewsPort Lincoln, looking at the port infrastructure and the grain loading system.
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130708 0800184 viewsCharra, crossing loop, 466.2 km.
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130708 0801184 viewsCharra, crossing loop, 466.2 km.
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060110 2182184 viewsNear the 78 km, empty grain train with ARG 1200 class unit 1204, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-428, originally built for the WAGR as the final unit of fourteen A class locomotives in 1965 and sent to the Eyre Peninsula in July 2004 and two 830 class AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 units 842 serial 84140 ex SAR broad gauge to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987, and 851 serial 84137 new to Eyre Peninsula in 1962. Approx. location of image.
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161109 1904184 viewsMoule, gypsum waggon RSG 1, rebuilt by G&W Port Lincoln from former BHP Whyalla RSK 29 iron ore waggon, hungry boards have as been fitted to increase the volume.
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030404 083001184 viewsPort Germein, Perth bound steel and intermodal hurries through on the main with empty steel loading on the rear. 4th April 2003.
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030415 155228184 viewsTarcoola, at the 504.5 km, looking east, points for Camp Train and No. 2 Loco Roads with the No. 1 Water Road coming in from the right. Mainline to the left. GeoData location. 15th April 2003.
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030407 114350183 viewsPoochera, empty grain train arrives behind 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, DA 4 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, to shunt off empty waggons and pick up the loaded ones. 7th April 2003.
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030411 110554183 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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060109 2145183 viewsWannamana, on the curve 2 km north of the former station site empty train 830 class unit 851 AE Goodwin built ALCo DL531 model serial 84137 repainted into Australian Railroad Group livery with an EMD 1200 class and a sister ALCo unit on the lead. 9th January 2006.
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060109 2146183 viewsWannamana, trailing view of former Australian National narrow gauge ENHG type bogie grain waggon ENHG 2, originally built by Moore Road Ind, Victoria as NB type NB 1395 ballast hopper for the NAR, then to standard gauge in 1975 as BA type BA 1539, recoded to AHTY in 1980, to EP April 1984, recoded to NHG type NHG 5 in May 1984, then again to ENHT type ENHT 5 in March 1985 and further rebuilt forming one half of ENHG type grain waggon in August 1986. The conversion involved splicing two AHTY-ENHT type waggons together at Port Lincoln workshops, part of an empty train on the curve. 9th January 2006.
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