Re: Fast 1/2 hour - Canterbury 16/2/00

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>From: Scott Martin <semartin@idx.com.au>
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>Subject: Fast 1/2 hour - Canterbury 16/2/00
>Date: Wed, 16 Feb 00 20:44:38 +1100
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>             This evening, I went down to the Cooks River bridge at
>Canterbury to take some photos of trains, however my camera failed only
>moments before the start of the intense half hour. After much tooing and
>froing, the blanky thing worked, but by then it was getting dark and the
>trains had stopped. Such is life. Anyhow, while I was there I noted the
>following locomotives and their trains:
>* 4837/8017 down trip train 1901
>* NR68/37/10 Up steel at 1903
>* 8031/8021 down empty 'Stonie', 1906. (Note: This train stopped with the
>last hoppers just off the bridge. Presumably it halted so as to negotiate
>the crossover between the goods and suburban lines at Campsie)
>* 8025/8007 up trip train 1913
>* 8138/8161/8155 up loaded coal 1928
>
>hope this has been of interest (the trains that is, not my camera
>problems)
>
>Scott
>
>People of Sydney, keep taking your medication;
>Our Olympic visitors must suspect nothing.
>
>Scott, the 48 class on the trip train with 8017 was 4873 (the last 
>operating "red terror" 48 as reported many time is "Digest").
4837 was withdrawn several years ago and is being progressively stripped of 
parts in Werris Creek.
I saw 4873/8017 together at Botany shortly after leaving work @ 16.30.
regards
Ivar
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