>Greetings,
>
>With the wheat harvest in full swing in NSW, following is a sample of an evening's traffic on the main south , observed
>at Exeter and Bundanoon last night (9 Jan). I have excluded local Endeavour services and Explorer railcars, but left in the
>XPT as "loco hauled".
>This is a fairly typical evening, but not as busy as it could have been, as the "Yo Yo" Medway - Berrima shuttles had ceased for the
>weekend. There was no sign of Austrac's 6SM7, due Goulburn 2205 (may have run early), and the Up Canberra Oil, 2138, was cancelled.
>For train watchers, there is a convenient "gap" between 7 and 8pm to have dinner - and the Bundanoon hotel has an excellent carvery!
>The wonders of block working at these signal boxes adds to the interest on a busy night. While rumours of a replacement signalling system for Moss Vale- Wingello persist, one of the existing semaphores at Bundanoon was recently upgraded to a steel post.
>
>Paul Hogan
>pghogan@bigpond.com
>
If you had stayed a little longer you could have listened to 422s x2
climbing Exeter bank with 1239 oil to Canberra.
Bevan Wall