Re: 80 class on Manildra train

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

david virgo wrote in message <36861a92.0@newshost.pcug.org.au>...
>For those interested.
>
>Earlier today (27/12) I spotted the southbound Manildra train at
Gerringong,
>hauled by 81+81+80 (81s leading).
>
>As I didn't have a pen to note the numbers (and was driving in the other
>direction) I didn't get  the loco numbers.
>
>Is this the same 80 class that has been sitting around Pt Kembla in recent
>months?
>
I doubt that it was 8018, the loco at Port Kembla, it has now not moved for
12 months. I saw 8033 on an up ballast train at Kembla Grange on 5/12, and I
saw it again at PK loco a few days later.
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Regards,
Chris Stratton
Wollongong, NSW, Australia