Re: sightings and questions

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

you mean they don't have a battery charger at cardiff ??!! :)

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Paul Jones
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Bob wrote in message <35ADE2D5.F86B54F3@fastlink.com.au>...
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>
>McGinty Family wrote:
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>> 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?
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>4627 was bound for Rothbury. The reason it had no pantograph is that it
would
>have been out of gauge in a non electrified area so it was removed for its
>journey. The three 422s at Cardiff are with the train radio project team
that
>are currently working at Cardiff. These are the units that were used for
>testing in the west some months ago. They may be used again for testing in
the
>future and are started every week to keep the batteries charged.
>Bob
>