Re: 81 class on Port Kembla Steelworks Duty?

["Chris Stratton" <stratton.chris.cp@NOSPAMbhp.com>]

"Simon Webb" <s_webb@one.net.au> wrote in message
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> Over the last couple of weeks I have noticed an 81 class (8108 I think)
> fitted out with the BHP flashing lights and so-on doing coal runs south
from
> Unanderra.  Does anybody know what kind of arrangement this is?  Have BHP
> bought an 81 and have not yet got around to repainting, or is is on
contract
> from the appropriate branch of what used to be the SRA (I've lost track of
> it all, pardon the pun).  Forgive me if this has already been and gone, I
> have just made it back into newsgroups after a prolonged absence.
>
> Regards,
>
> Simon
>

BHP have leased 3 81s from National Rail. They are 8102, 8106 and 8108. 8115
is at Port Kembla as well as a spare unit, but still working with NRC. They
all have side clearance lights fitted and strobes lights linked to the horn.
8115 doesn't have the fluoro orange pilots that the other 3 have.
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Regards,
Chris Stratton
Wollongong, NSW, Australia
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