Re: Illawarra Line Obervations

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

Graham Fry <fryg@sydpcug.org.au> wrote in message
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> It is not often in recent times that you see two general freight
> trains(as distinct from coal trains) in close company on the Illawarra.
> At about 7.30pm tonight (Wed 3/11) an NR train consisting of both steel
> wagons and BHP hoppers (filled with what looked like sand??)was standing
> at Hurstville waiting for a path. The train locos were NR 12 + Nr? +
> DL73 + DL74 + NR26, all locos were operating when it later went through
> Penshurst. At Carlton a FreighCorp grain with 8183 + 8150 + 8135 was
> stopped behind the NR freight.
> I pressume the NR train was one of the regular steel trains combined
> with the Dunmore(?) blue metal train, but where from and to would they
> be carrying sand?
> Any ideas
>
> Graham Fry
>
It is limestone from the Medway quarry near Marulan going to Port Kembla
steelworks. The Unanderra-Moss Vale line is closed again for more work and
the limestone trains have to run via Sydney.
Are you sure the last NR was 26, it has been reported elsewhere as 20. There
are no such locos as DL73 and DL74, the locos were actually DL44 and DL43.
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Regards,
Chris Stratton
Wollongong, NSW, Australia
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