sightings and questions

["McGinty Family" <mmcginty@bigpond.com>]

On Friday, 10th July I travelled from Gosford to Newcastle to to do a bit
of photography etc. On passing Cardiff loco, I noticed 42207/18/19 parked
beside the workshops, and then whilst waiting to photograph a four car K
set doing passenger services at Broadmeadow, FreightCorp's 4856 crawled
through with electric loco 4627 in tow (minus pantographs). The loco's
proceeded through the station and stopped at Woodville Junction to allow a
Muswellbrook bound Endeavour pass. I would assume that the electric loco 
was heading for either Simsmetal at Kooragang Island or possibly Rothbury
Riot at Branxton. Did anybody else get photo's of this movement and does
anybody know details of the destination and owner?
	I noticed that National Rail's NR26 was in the yard following the
Robertson Derailment for repairs. NR 41 (which looked freshly painted or
bloody well cleaned!) was sitting outside the workshops near the turntable
minus bogies. Does anybody know what happened to this loco and how long it
has been out of service for?
 	A couple of other Questions:-
	*Does anybody have details about an NR class catching fire at Joppa
Junction?
	*Does anybody know the whereabouts of NR3?
	*Has naybody got an update of the 85/86 class running status?

If you have answers to the above questions or would like to share some of
your sightings/railway trips, please E -mail me.

	Michael McGinty
	mmcginty@bigpond.com