Re: [WA] Rail frequencies

["Graeme Cleak" <gcleak@optusnet.com.au>]

My records show the following frequencies/channels-

Ch 1 - 168.520
Ch 2 - 168.580
Ch 3 - 168.600
Ch 4 - 168.640
Ch 7 - 168.670
Ch 8 - 168.725
Ch 9 - 168.420
Ch 10 - 168.790
Ch 11 - 169.000
Ch 12 - 169.920
Don't know what each will give you though.
For Trans Perth try -   462.025, 462.325, 462.600, 467.275, 467.650, 469.975

Graeme Cleak.





Douglas CLIFFORD <cliffd@iinet.net.au> wrote in message
news:v46rmskisac0u5npl6vve0119toc8r09c3@4ax.com...
> A few weeks ago sent out a plea requesting information about Westrail
> radio frquencies.  No responses...thanks fellas!  Anyway, I managed to
> find a book @ Tandy called "Listening & Scanning: Listening
> frequencies for Australia" (620-9506), said to be updated as late as
> March 2000.
>
>   This book lists no less than 70 (seventy!!) different frequencies
> for Westrail.   It sems difficult to believe that Westrail uses ALL
> these frequencies, so I have assumed that some, if nor many are held
> in reserve.  If this is so, could some one kindly confirm this, as I
> see no point in programming my newly acquired scanner with "empty"
> frequencies.  I have further asssumed there might be some overlap also
> with TransPerth as far as the Perth Suburban system is concerned.
>
> What is also pertinent is that the printed list is possibly
> unreliable, as one putative TransPerth frequency, (464.4000),
> obviously belongs to a private courier company.
>
> What I have been able to glean, more or less, is the following....
>
> 168.430  Toll shunter, Westrail Kewdale, & National Rail
> 168.520  Eastern Control
> 168.580  Forrestfield - Avon - Kalgoorlie
> 168.600  Kwinana Signal Box
> 168.640  Avon - Kwinana - Merridin - West Kalgoorlie
> 168.725  Midland Railway - Northern Railway - Geraldton
> 168.790  Kalgoorlie - Kwinana  &  Narngulu - Picton
> 169.030  Kwinana
> 169.240  Kwinana - Perth
> 418.600  Cook - Kalgoorlie
> 418.950  National Rail Shunter
>
> I am not sure of the validity of these, as I was supplied them third
> hand.  What I have established by listening is that 169.240 is
> actually South-West Control