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206-02168 viewsOn the Woodie Woodie Road near the start, just in case you have trouble they have a few signs to help out.
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206-31168 viewsAn empty train on the Yarrie (former Goldsworthy) line behind BHP 5633 'Hephaestus' with a string of Golynx ore waggons, built by Goninan WA to a Lynx Engineering design, these are belly dump waggons as opposed to the BHP fleet of rotary dump bodies.
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207-03168 viewsYandi One balloon loop, Comeng WA built ore waggon 1442 coupled to a Goninan style waggon 4146 on the empty side of the load-out tunnel, August 1999.
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030407 085725168 viewsYaninee, station located at the 237.6 km, opened in April 1915, train control booth and shelter. 7th April 2003.
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060108 2061168 viewsLock, grain train being loaded by former SAR 830 class unit 842, built by AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 84140 in 1962, originally on broad gauge, transferred to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987 and, 1204 and sister 851.
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051101 6428168 viewsParkeston, AHQF waggons seen here in Loongana Limestone service, originally built by Goninan WA for Western Quarries as a batch of twenty coded WHA type in 1995. Purchased by Westrail in 1998.
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160103 DJI 0062168 viewsColonial Mill ruins located within Wittenoom Gorge. Concrete foundations remain of the once impressive crusher and mill plant. See images of the site intact here , Geodata: -22.311648, 118.318664.
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150522 8180168 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal yard, Goninan WA rebuild CM40-8M units 5649 serial 8412-07/93-140 and 5638 serial 8281-02/92-127, for full details of these units past lives see here .
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150522 8188168 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal yard, Goninan WA rebuild CM40-8M unit 5657 serial 8412-02/94-148 awaits the shears. Full details of this unit can be seen here .
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160128 00878168 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal Yard, a view down the side of Goninan rebuilt GE model CM40-8M unit 5661, serial 8412-06, builders no. 94-152, a sharp eye will see that this frame was a Comeng built ALCo M636, while behind it is an AE Goodwin built ALCo M636 frame.
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208-2-14168 viewsGuildford, looking towards the station from the Perth end.
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160522 2031168 viewsParkeston, 5MP2 steel train, RKCX type open waggon RKCX 1075, built by Victorian Railways Bendigo Workshops in 1977 as a member of the ELX type open waggons, recoded to VOCX in 1980, in 1995 to the NRC as ROBX and then current code in 1995.
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22350168 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, loaded onto a ninety six wheel road transport float, Robe River rebuild GE CM40-8M unit 9424 serial 6266-07 / 89-84 is loaded awaiting transport to Cape Lambert. 9424 was rebuilt from former Spokane Portland & Seattle number 343 an ALCo Schenectady NY model C636 serial 6010-4, to Robe River in May 1981 as 9424, kept this number when rebuilt here. September 1991.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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041225 064654168 viewsNelson Point Ore Car Repair Shops, brand new Bradken NSW built ore waggon 9101 asset number 2031703. These waggons are the latest additions to the fleet with 20 on order in total. They are made from the same 5Cr12Ti steel that the Goninan Golynx waggons are made. 25th December 2004.
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104-21167 viewsWallan, gangers trolley shed, view from rear.
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105-31167 viewsSeymour loco depot inspection pit road with davit hoist and portable inspection walkways.
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111-27167 viewsNorth Geelong C Box, V/Line broad gauge light loco G class G 526 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 88-1256 surrenders the electric staff for to the Nth Geelong signaller for the section Nth Geelong B to Nth Geelong C, catch points, ground disc signal, point rodding, safeworking.
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122-12167 viewsTraralgon loco depot, round house, turntable, V/Line broad gauge locos A class A 78 Clyde Engineering EMD model AAT22C-2R serial 84-1185 rebuilt from B class B 78 Clyde Engineering EMD model ML2 serial ML2-19, rail tractor RT class and G class G 512 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 84-1240.
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177-15167 viewsNewport, V/Line broad gauge down goods train to Adelaide 9169 with the impressive quad combo of a pair of Australian National BL class locomotives BL 27 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 83-1011 and class leader BL 26 'Bob Hawke' serial 83-1010 and V/Line S class S 313 'Alfred Deakin' Clyde Engineering EMD model A7 serial 61-230 and V/Line X class loco X 53 with serial 75-800 a Clyde Engineering Rosewater SA built EMD model G26C round the curve on the Geelong line with the workshops in the background.
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179-31167 viewsGheringhap, internal view of signal box showing the new from 1907 18 lever frame, installed following the removal of double line block to Bannockburn, 2 lever frame extension on the right installed from 1918, lever 11 is painted white, blocked and abolished from 1977. Similarly lever 3 have been removed, most likely when the Maroona line distant was converted to a home signal and signal post 6 was abolished in 1990.
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