Re: Head on in the Western district

["Hoges" <pghogan@NOSPAMbigpond.com>]

Steven Hurst <hurste@primus.com.au> wrote in message
svL%3.3$RL2.526@nsw.nnrp.telstra.net">news:svL%3.3$RL2.526@nsw.nnrp.telstra.net...
> For those not on Ausloco mail list, 2G's on a grain vs 2 NR's on a
steel(?)
> at Ararat.  One G may be writen off, and last but by no means least 2 crew
> are seriously injured.  G's were stationary, but loop was left open, and
> NR's came in colliding head-on.

Incorrect on several counts. The two locos are believed to be G518 and G517.
One was on the stationary ballast train in the siding, the other on the Up
grain train which was supposed to stay on the main, but was switched into
the path of the ballast.  Yuri has put up some captured frames from the TV
coverage at his website - start with
http://www.railpage.org.au/steam4me/images/ararat1.jpg   and then substitute
ararat2 and ararat3 for the other images.

Regards,

Paul