Re: Freight trains through Redfern.

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

Bevan Wall <bevanwall@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> I've just spent a very hectic day videoing loco hauled trains passing
> through Redfern. Due to a closure of the freight lines at Homebush,
> all northern traffic either going to or coming from southern
> destinations had to first run into Sydney Yard then reverse back out.
>
>  Locos/trains recorded were: 8169, empty spoil out of Syd; CPH
> railmotors into and out of Syd; 8175 & 8180 LE into Syd; 4401, SL65
> out of Syd; 8149 & 8183, 9572 in to Syd; 8175 & 8180, 9572 out of Syd;
> 42220, SL15 out of Syd; 8013 & 4865, ballast into & out of Syd; NR63 &
> NR90, LE into Syd; NR101, Great Southern Pacific Express into Syd;
> 8108, LE into Syd; NR4 & NR68, 6MB4 into Syd; NR63 & NR90, 6MB4 out of
> Syd;  8027 & 48154, empty spoil into and out of Syd; 8108 & NR101
> push/pull, Great Southern Pacific Express out of & into Syd; NR58 &
> NR62, 6BA6 into Syd; 8108, LE out of Syd; NR4 &NR68, 6BA6 out of Syd;
> 8112/NR48 & NR42 push/pull, 7SB7 into Syd; NR48 & NR42, 7SB7 out of
> Syd; 8112, LE out of Syd; NR41 & NR56, 6BM4 into Syd; NR58 & NR4, 6BM$
> out od Syd; 8173, spoil into & out of Syd; 8208 & 8252, 6BS9 into Syd;
> NR101, Great Southern Pacific Express out of Syd.
>
> I hope all of the above makes sense. The National Rail freights ran
> all the way to the buffers at Sydnet Terminal, leaving the ends of the
> trains around the Sydeny end of Redfern station. The first NR train in
> wa 6MB4.  A pair of NRs that had arrived ealier LE and waited in
> Elstons sidings at Elstons sidings then attached to the rear of the
> train and hauled it further south. The NRs off 6BM4 proceeded to
> Elstons to wait for the next superfreighter, and so on. With the
> exception of 9572 flour train, all the freight corp trains had their
> locos run around the train in Sydney Yard.
>
> The above action will make a great segment in a future "Diesel Diary"
> video.
>
> Bevan Wall

Sounds like a good day, I saw you from the CPHs as we went past.
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Regards,
Chris Stratton
Wollongong, NSW, Australia
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