Re: sightings and questions

["Paul Jones" <dj_argon@geocities.com>]

>FreightCorp's 4856 crawled
>through with electric loco 4627 in tow (minus pantographs).

this might have been the left over 46 that was left at redfern the other day
with a leaky air pipe.

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Paul Jones
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McGinty Family wrote in message <01bdad6d$9da022c0$LocalHost@michael>...
>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