Re: NR in Penrith Yard

[Don Allitt <nahgfa@zeta.org.au>]

Go back to railpage scroll down onto Ausloco archives and you will get all the info
times etc you want.
Don.

David & Julie Donald wrote:

> NR71 (it appeared to be completely shut down) has been sitting in Penrith Up
> Yard all day on what appears to be a down/westbound special freight; I saw it at
> roughly 0710 this morning, and it hadn't moved at 1735.  The load is quite
> unusual in that the trtain seems to be the movement of three BHP molten steel
> ladles (suspect out-of-gauge) split by empty container wagons, presumably as
> match wagons, with AH811 on the rear - I believe that the AH is FreightCorp's
> "special trains" van (or however you want to describe it); there was no ETM on
> the rear of the train, nor did there appear to be any formal protection.
>
> Does anyone know what this is all about ??
>
> --
>
> Regards
>
> David Donald
> Springwood, NSW
>
> dsjmd@hermes.net.au