Re: 47s to Wollongong

["Chris Stratton" <stratton.chris.cp@bhp.com.au>]

They are returning via Sydney as there are more cars to be picked up there
before they return to Cowra. I don't know why they came to Port Kembla via
Sydney, unless they were attached to an NRC train and these don't run on the
Unanderra-Moss Vale line at the present time. They could have come down
light or been attached to one of the many coal and wheat trains operating on
the mountain over the weekend.
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Regards,
Chris Stratton
Wollongong, NSW, Australia
Rod wrote in message <01bde4a2$b3694f20$0412868b@dialup.mpx.com.au>...
>
>Sorry if this question has already been answered, earlier, but why would
>the 47,s need to go "the long way "?
>I am fairly ignorant of NSW workings, learning most from the Group!
>but I have travelled on, and had a little drive of a tin Hare from
>Woolongong to MossVale
>a few years ago, and although the line was steep and very interesting from
>a Victorian
>Enginemans point of view, I am sure a T would do a very good job of hauling
>at least 300 tonnes up that hill........or am I missing something?
>                                                     Rod