Re: New freight on Canberra Branch

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

David Bennetts wrote in message
<01be2481$10aff260$424c0acb@davibenn.pcug.org.au>...
>With a decline in freight traffic on the Canberra branch over recent years
>(reduction in the proportion of fuel coming to Canberra by rail and the
>closure of the Woodlawn mine near Tarago) it is pleasing to see that
>transfer of logs by rail started yesterday from Bungendore.  I am informed
>that two Austrac locos were in Bungendore yard yesterday.  Both ex WA
>locos, numbers not known.
>
>Regards
>
>David Bennetts
>Canberra

It they were both NBs it would have to be 1872 and 1873, the only two
running. 1873 was at Port Kembla on Tuesday with 4814.
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Regards,
Chris Stratton
Wollongong, NSW, Australia
stratton.chris.cp@bhp.com.au