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030411 11052395 viewsKimba, concrete pre-fab station building doors.

030411 14134295 viewsNunjikompita, aboriginal word for 'burnt hair', located , terminus of line from 14th August 1914 until Thevenard extension opened on the 8th of February 1915, 'station' shelter shed, consignment register desk still in situ.

030411 14135595 viewsNunjikompita, aboriginal word for 'burnt hair', station sign attached to shelter shed.

060108 207795 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.

060108 208095 viewsLock, 830 class unit 851 AE Goodwin built ALCo DL531 model serial 84137 repainted into Australian Railroad Group livery.

060109 214695 viewsWannamana, trailing view of former Australian National narrow gauge ENHG type bogie grain waggon ENHG 2, originally built by Moore Road Ind, Victoria as NB type NB 1395 ballast hopper for the NAR, then to standard gauge in 1975 as BA type BA 1539, recoded to AHTY in 1980, to EP April 1984, recoded to NHG type NHG 5 in May 1984, then again to ENHT type ENHT 5 in March 1985 and further rebuilt forming one half of ENHG type grain waggon in August 1986. The conversion involved splicing two AHTY-ENHT type waggons together at Port Lincoln workshops, part of an empty train on the curve. 9th January 2006.

060111 239895 viewsWudinna, ARG 1200 class unit 1203, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-427 is one of fourteen originally built between 1960-65 for WAGR as A class, A 1513, fitted with dynamic brakes and financed by Western Mining Corporation, it started working on the Eyre Peninsula in November 2004, here it and two ALCo units 850 and 905 have arrived on the grain loop and are about to run round the consist. 11th January 2006.

060113 244795 viewsThevenard, NJ class unit NJ 3 a Clyde Engineering built EMD model JL22C serial 71-730, originally built for the Central Australia Railway in 1971, transferred to the Eyre Peninsula in 1981. 13th January 2006.

060113 249695 viewsKevin, originally one of sixty two Kinki Sharyo built NH type for the NAR in 1966, now coded ENH type ENH 53 with hungry boards fitted and access ladder still intact. Empty train 6DD3 on the stub of the now closed line to Penong.

060113 254295 viewsKevin, with the points now set again for the mainline narrow gauge locos 1604, NJ 3 and 1601 sit on the mainline to Penong, having reversed train 6DD3 on the Kevin triangle 1600 class unit 1604 in Australian Railroad Group livery a Clyde Engineering built EMD JL22C model serial 71-731, originally built as NJ class NJ 4 and built for the Central Australia Railway in 1971, transferred to the Eyre Peninsula in 1981. 13th January 2006.

060113 258595 viewsCeduna, or Denial Bay area, empty gypsum train 6DD5 blasts up hill at the 440 km, west of Carpenter Corner Rd with power from triple 1600/NJ class units 1604, NJ 3 and 1601. 1604 in Australian Railroad Group livery is a Clyde Engineering built EMD JL22C model serial 71-731, originally built as NJ class NJ 4. Location approximation. 13th January 2006.

130704 037395 viewsKyancutta, south bound loaded grain train has stopped here to collect a loaded rack of fourteen grain waggons from the Ascom silo complex, Clyde Engineering built EMD G12C model 1204 serial 65-428 leads the train and was originally built in 1965 for Western Mining Corporation and operated by the WAGR as their A class A 1514.

130706 067795 viewsPort Lincoln, looking at the port silo storage facility from Bishop Street.

130708 071995 viewsCharra,

PD 1285295 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AOPY 32390 with fleet number 917, one of seventy ex ANR coal waggons rebuilt from AOKF type by Bluebird Engineering SA in service with ARG on Koolyanobbing iron ore trains. They used to be three metres longer and originally built by Metropolitan Cammell Britain as GB type in 1952-55.

060528 441495 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQHY 30038 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0012, originally built by the WAGR Midland Workshops in 1964/66 as a WF type flat waggon, then in 1997, following several recodes and modifications, was one of seventy five waggons converted to the WQH type to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth/Kwinana.

060528 441995 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQHY 30036 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0035, originally built by the WAGR Midland Workshops in 1964/66 as a WF type flat waggon, then in 1997, following several recodes and modifications, was one of seventy five waggons converted to the WQH type to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth/Kwinana.

060528 446795 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQHY 30005 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0029, originally built by the WAGR Midland Workshops in 1964/66 as a WF type flat waggon, then in 1997, following several recodes and modifications, was one of seventy five waggons converted to the WQH type to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth/Kwinana.

060528 451995 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, RQFY 14 number board detail, built by Victorian Railways Bendigo workshops in April 1978 in a batch of forty QMX type skeletal container waggons, in July 1980 re-coded to VQFX, in October 1994 re-coded to RQFX and 2CM bogies fitted.

060528 4649 ATPF581Y95 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ATPF 581 fuel tank waggon built by WAGR Midland Workshops 1976 for Shell as type WJP 80.66 kL one compartment one dome, fitted with type F InterLock couplers.

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