'Strange' NR train on the Illawarra

["Derek Rogers" <DekRogers@nospambigpond.com>]

Matthew
The train you saw was one of National Rail's Dunmore Quarry (Shellharbour)
to Cooks River blue metal trains for Boral Ltd which commenced in late June.
The workings are normally worked by two DL class locos. (See Railway Digest
August 1999, page 13 for more details).
Regards
Derek Rogers
Editor - Railway Digest

Matthew Geier <matthew@mail.usyd.edu.au> wrote in message
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> I go on two weeks holiday and every thing changes :-)
>
>
>  Last night at Kogarah, while I was up on the concourse filling
> out a periodical application, a train passed under us, led by 2 NR
coloured
> DL class locomotives and trailing approx 15-20 NR coloured hopper wagons
> loaded with some black stuff, I assume coke.
>
>  Can any one confirm this, or was I imagining things from my holiday in
> the west :-)
>
>  Has NR got the Coal-Cliff to Suphide Junction coke run ?
>