Re: NSW FreightCorp locos in WA?

[Neill <n2386160@sparrow.qut.edu.au>]

On 20 May 1998, Gavin wrote:

> There is one 81 class in Kalgoorlie(Parkeston)8112 and one 81 class in
> Perth(Kewdale)8114 they are to be used as shunt units.
> They are still in FreightCorp colors.

See this proves that Railway digest should go national and partly discard
its NSW domminace (in material submitted), the new south wales railways
are now getting cut up and in the future the railway companies will not
stop at state borders (eg QR to moree, V/line further into NSW) and the
possibility of mergers (like what has happened in the US) will blur the
readership of the state based railfan magizines.  Even as a ccomprimise
the current news editors of Newsrail and sunshine express can submit
current news from that state to railway digest and thus RD can widen its
interstate coverage.

> Gavin
> 
> Peter Neve <nswsrca@ozemail.com.au> wrote in article
> <354bd2c6.43061@news.ozemail.com.au>...
> > G'day.
> > 
> > It is my understanding that National Rail Corporation  returned 8167 &
> > 8176 to FreightCorp in early April in exchange for 8112 & 8114
> > respectively (possibly because the latter 81s are still under a
> > lease-back arrangement).   The story is that the two 81s have become
> > yard shunters at Kalgoorlie in Western Australia.
> > 
> > Can any reader confirm or deny that these units are now at Kalgoorlie
> > and whether they are still in FreightCorp colours - they certainly
> > left Sydney in the blue livery!
> > 
> > One would think that they would be early candidates for repainting
> > into NRC colours, as shown on the NRC Web Page under "Archives".
> > I wonder whether the units will be renumbered, and if so to what???
> > 
> > Pete.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

"Never let someone stuff something up for you, when you can stuff it just
as well yourself"

Neill