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070531 9712388 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, APKY 30641, leader of two waggons built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1970 as WK type pneumatic discharge bulk cement waggon, non-handbrake end.
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070608 0103388 viewsMidland, AQCY 31050, built by Centrecon Ltd WA in 1981 in a batch of thirty five WFA type container waggons, another eighteen were also built by Westrail. Recoded to WQCY 1987, then RHQY and back to WQCY in 1995. Loaded with two Westrail COR roll top containers COR 5868 and COR 5888 and a 20' ISO Tank Containers Australia tanktainer TCAU 121002 with ammonium nitrate emulsion.
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110710 7425 PD388 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQAY 2273, this orphan waggon started life as a Comeng Vic built GOX type open waggon for Commonwealth Railways in 1970, then coded AOOX. Under AWR ownership is was reduced to this 3 TEU unit container skeletal waggon. Peter Donaghy image.
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060117 2719387 viewsBardoc, AQCY 30230 container waggon, originally built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1974 as WFX type, recoded to WQCX in 1980, with three 20' containers, Royal Wolf box, a Titan tanktainer and a Cronos box.
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060528 4420387 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQCY 30308 here in barrier waggon service on an acid consist, originally built by Tomlinson Steel in 1970 as one of 161 units built as WFX type container waggon. Re-coded to WQCX in 1980 then WQTY in 1996.
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060528 4443387 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, OPC 385, originally built by South Australian Railways Islington Workshops in 1968 as an 8300 class brake van numbered 8372 on broad gauge, to standard gauge and recoded in Sept 1982 to AVAY 385, converted to AZXP accident van in c1986 and then in April 1993 recoded to OPC.
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060603 5234387 viewsMidland, AQCY 30205 container flat waggon built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1974 part of a batch of forty five WFX type container flat waggons, in 1981 recoded to WQCX. Loaded with two empty 20' Cockburn Cement tanktainers for lime and cement haulage.
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070529 9332387 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, WGL 632 originally one of three units built by Westrail Midland Workshops in 1976-7 as WGL type bogie flat waggon for Western Mining Corporation for bagged nickel matte traffic.
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070529 9419387 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ATPF 580 fuel tank waggon built by WAGR Midland Workshops 1976 for Shell as type WJP, 80.66 kL one compartment one dome, capacity of 80500 litres, it also spent time in SA in 1985, fitted with type F InterLock couplers, Shell Fleet no. TR715 still visible.
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070530 9512387 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AZVY type departmental wheel set carrier waggon AZVY 2829, built by Transfield WA 1976 for Commonwealth Railways as one of two hundred GOX type open waggons. Recoded to AOOX, then in 1992 modified to AZVY.
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070530 9541387 viewsParkeston, RMWY 34024 triple deck car carrying waggon, built by Comeng NSW in 1975 within the third batch of ten WMX type double deck car carrying waggons, re-coded to WMFX in 1979, converted to triple deck WMGF in 1989 then under National Rail leasing they became RMWY type.
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070609 0181387 viewsMidland, a string of AQCY waggons with a wide variety of container loading.
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100603 8857387 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AOXY 33229, converted to carry nickel matte bulk bags, in WGL traffic. Built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1973 as part of a batch of twenty five WGX type open waggons, in 1981 to WOAX, then AOAY type.
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100609 09985387 viewsMidland, AQGY 30080 flat waggon, originally built by WAGR Midland Workshops in a batch of one hundred and nineteen flat waggons as WF type in 1964-66, recoded to WFDY in 1979, WFDF in 1988 and WFBY in 1990. Loaded with two empty AGR sodium cyanide tanktainers SD 664 and SD 658.
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060530 4869386 viewsParkeston, AZYF 932 is a CCE compressor waggon, originally built by Metropolitan Cammell Britain as GB class in 1952-55 for Commonwealth Railways, converted to RGB class, then current code in 1989.
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060530 4915386 viewsParkeston, AHBY 0035 one of sixty five AHBY class ballast hoppers built by EDI Rail at their Port Augusta Workshops for ARG in 2001-02 for the Darwin line, also the FMG construction in 2008, here in limestone quarry products service.
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060530 4944386 viewsParkeston, AFBF 33121 kibble flat waggon, built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1969 in a batch of fifty eight WGX type open waggons without end doors, in 1975 to WGN for nickel traffic, back to WGX in 1976, to WOAX, then in 1987 to WOSF for steel traffic, then further cut down to for kibble traffic as seen here.
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070529 9415386 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, diesel fuel tanker ATDY 4619, ex NSW NTAF AMPOL tank, now in service with BP Oil, capacity of 67000 litres.
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070608 0104386 viewsMidland, AQCY 31041, built by Centrecon Ltd WA in 1981 in a batch of thirty five WFA type container waggons, another eighteen were also built by Westrail. Converted in 1987 to WFAP for motor vehicles, then back at some time, loaded with two Westrail 20' COR roll top type containers COR 5853 and COR 5548.
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070609 0186386 viewsMidland, AZDY 30719, one of about fourteen WBAX vans converted to AZDY type sodium cyanide container waggon, originally built by WAGR Midland Workshops as one of seventy five WV/X type covered vans in 1967-68 and converted to VWV type for narrow gauge in 1967 and recoded back in 1968. Converted late 1988/9 to WQDF.
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