Re: National Train identifiers

[David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>]

David & Julie Donald wrote:

> To add some confusion to this whole matter, remember that FreightCorp's Leigh
> Creek coal service, on behalf of Flinders Power, seems to hold the FP
> designation for both directions.  I was in the Hunter recently, and I heard
> Control talking to what I think was 6HN1 - the only service that I cold think of
> was the NRC coal traffic for Macquarie Power, with HN presumably meaning
> "Hunter".  However, this could theoretically become confusing given that N also
> refers to "Newcastle" / Morandoo / Port Waratah.

FreightCorp coal trains have train designations starting with a letter, then 3
numbers.
The letter is the colliery, and the number is indicates loaded or unloaded.  Mines
are (for example) T = Mt Thorley  U = Ulan  B = Bloomfield  C = Camberwell  S =
Stratford   etc, etc.

Your 6HN1 carries National Destination codes, but in this case, the N stands for
Newdell Junction, not Newcastle.  I can't remember what the H was for.


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