Re: 4703 on the Botany Line

["kak 015" <kak015@hotmail.com>]

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>From: "Christopher J Jones" <cjjones@ihug.com.au>
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>Subject: 4703 on the Botany Line
>Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 18:44:18 +1000
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>        An interesting afternoon at Cooks River and Botany
>Arrival at Cooks at 4.10 pm :
>     New Yard
>EL58/62 in James' Siding with a loaded train facing Enfield
>NR104/10 on a train from Botany in the Runaround
>NR99 nose facing Botany LE in the Master Siding
>     Yard
>4486
>4814
>EL61/63/51 (sorry, didn't note which way they were facing) - when did EL51 
>return, and which way did it come ?
>8148
>
>     At 4.20 pm 4716/4703 raced through towards Botany (A ends together)
>Catching up with them at Botany at 5 pm they had run around their train and 
>then had a crew change - with the driver commenting to his relief driver
>" I've left you with a nice pretty green one ! "
>After the change the 47's proceeded to push back its half loaded train 
>towards Port Botany.  All the while 8161 shunted 1 grain wagon into 
>Kelloggs and 8216 sat at the top of F frame ready to leave on a train of 
>flats.
>     By 5.10 pm 4703/4716 had shunted their train into CTAL, then it was 
>home time for me.
>
>     Is this the first working on the Botany Line by 4703 and possibly its 
>first task since being in Sydney ?
>Chris, there was no sign of 4703 anywhere near Botany this morning around 
>7.45 nor around 1.15 this arvo.
I looked for it at Leightonfield around 2.30 but only found 4717 plus 
NR66/NR30 on PW4.
That'll teach me to leave work early to go to Doctor. Would loved to have 
seen & photographed this one.
Oh well, Maybe tomorrow.
Regards
Ivar the envious!
>     Hope you enjoy - I sure did, Chris
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