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Broadmeadow happenings
- To: ausrail@railpage.org.au
- Subject: Broadmeadow happenings
- From: "Steve Shotton" <steves@castle.net.au>
- Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 01:29:13 +1100
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Thought I'd mention what I saw the other night on my way home from work, it
was fairly busy for a while.
Trainfile Thursday 26/02/98 - Friday 27/02/98
Kotara Station
26/02/98 23:46 8167 (I think) with a DOWN Freight
Broadmeadow Yard
27/02/98 12:25 Locomotives: 48class 81class 86class
82class 90class
Assisting Shunt 4873
8635 8245
Assisting Shunt 4876
8614
4880
4875
48162
48155
Shunting Engine 4877 (+ Shunter's Wagon)
Railcars: Endeavour 2xCar 620
4xCar 620
4
1 2
Electric Sets: 'K' 2xCar 'K' 4xCar
'V' 4xCar 'V' 8xCar
2
NOTE: 48162 is fitted with cab Air Cond. and does not have the normal
FreightCorp logo applied. It has a much smaller sticker (about 11inches x
5inches) which has the logo on a reflective white background.
27/02/98 12:35
8209 arrived from the south with a 40 wagon container train in tow. The
train comprised:
2x NOJY, 4x NOBX (1 loaded), 8x NOCY (1 loaded), 3x NOBF, 5x NODY (1
loaded), 3x NOJY (1 loaded), 2 loaded NQIF, 1 loaded NGOX, 3 loaded NQFX, 1x
NQIX, 1x NZMF and 6x NGGF grain wagons. Plus one unidentified empty wagon.
This train stopped for three minutes at Broadmeadow Yard, before proceeding
north on the Down Relief road.
Adamstown Station
27/02/98 12:53
NR 115/5 sped through Adamstown on the Down Main with a 21 wagon train,
comprising three Louvre Vans, fifteen NR steel wagons, and three NGGF Grain
Wagons.
Then I went home to bed!
Steve Shotton.