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100605 9374100 viewsWOD type iron ore waggon WOD 31324 is one of a batch of sixty two built by Goninan WA between April and August 2000 with serial number 950086-012 and fleet number 502 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations with a 75 ton capacity and a replacement for a WO type waggon number, for Portman Mining to cart their Koolyanobbing iron ore to Esperance, Binduli Triangle, loaded with fines, 5th June 2010.
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100729 01947100 viewsWOD type iron ore waggon WOD 31475 is one of a batch of sixty two built by Goninan WA between April and August 2000 with serial number 950086-047 and fleet number 538 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations with a 75 ton capacity for Portman Mining to cart their Koolyanobbing iron ore to Esperance, now with PORTMAN painted out, West Kalgoorlie, 29th July 2010.
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030405 145612100 viewsWarramboo, track view across to loading ramp located at the northern end of the sidings, 5th April 2003.
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030405 145723100 viewsWarramboo, station located at the 190.2 km and originally opened in May 1913, station name board, 5th April 2003.
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030405 154418100 viewsLock, yard overview looking south from the northern end with a kink in the mainline with the points for the siding, silo complex visible in the background, 5th April 2003.
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030405 155300100 viewsLock, yard overview looking south, points and lever with indicator for the siding off the mainline, concrete silo complex Block 2 and outflow spout visible on the right as local identity Pope Searle wanders around the yard. 5th April 2003.
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030405 160328100 viewsLock, station yard overview, located at the 148.5 km, originally opened in May 1913 and called Terre after a local property, renamed to Lock in December 1921. Looking north along the mainline, points, lever and indicator for grain siding, Ascom style silo complex with concrete behind them, horizontal grain shed on the right with former crew barracks in front of that. 5th April 2003.
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030405 161712100 viewsLock, view from the site where the former yard crane in located, along North Terrace, looking east towards the silo complexes, 5th April 2003.
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030406 100330100 viewsCummins, yard overview looking north from the south end of the yard down the mainline. Points, lever and indicator for the goods and grain siding, the tracks on the right run behind the camera to the grain bunker loading - unloading site. 6th April 2003.
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030406 103550100 viewsEdillilie, station located at the 51.3 km, opened in November 1907 as Mortlock, renamed in October 1908. Yard overview looking north with silo complexes on the left. 6th April 2003.
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030407 094908100 viewsMinnipa, station yard overview looking north from the middle of the yard. Sidings 2 and 3 coming in from the left and Siding 1 on the right, point levers and indicators. Grade crossing in the distance. 7th April 2003.
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030407 100500100 viewsMinnipa, north bound empty grain train shunts across the grade crossing for Minnipa - Yardea Rd behind a trio of former Australian National Co-Co locomotives with rebuilt former AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 830 class ex 839, serial no. 83730, rebuilt by Port Augusta Workshops to DA class, leading two AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 830 class units 842, serial no. 84140 and 851 to shunt off empty waggons into the grain siding. 7th April, 2003.
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030407 100834100 viewsMinnipa, empty grain train shunts back into the grain siding with a trio of former Australian National Co-Co locomotives with rebuilt former AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 830 class ex 839, serial no. 83730, rebuilt by Port Augusta Workshops to DA class, leading two AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 830 class units 842, serial no. 84140 and 851 serial no. 84137, 851 having been on the Eyre Peninsula since delivered in 1962. 7th April, 2003.
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030411 141342100 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.
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060108 2077100 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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060108 2080100 viewsLock, 830 class unit 851 AE Goodwin built ALCo DL531 model serial 84137 repainted into Australian Railroad Group livery.
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060111 2412100 viewsWudinna, ARG 1200 class unit 1203, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-427, one of fourteen originally built between 1960-65 for WAGR as their A class A 1513, fitted with dynamic brakes and financed by Western Mining Corporation, started working on the Eyre Peninsula in November 2004, 1203 and two ALCo units 850 and 905 shunt back down the mainline at Wudinna as they run round their consist. 11th January 2006.
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060113 2443100 viewsThevenard, at the Gypsum Resources Australian (GRA) gypsum unloading site, 1604 leads a triple consist of Clyde Engineering EMD JL22C model 1600 / NJ class combination of 1604 serial 71-731 and originally NJ 4, NJ 3 serial 71-730 and 1601 serial 71-728 class leader NJ 1, all three units started on the Central Australia Railway in 1971 and were transferred to the Eyre Peninsula in 1981. 1604 and 1601 both renumbered in 2004. Friday 13th January 2006.
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060113 2459100 viewsThevenard, yard view looking west from No. 13 points at the front of the maintenance 'yard' with the disused grain bunker and 6DD3 running along beside the silos as it unloads at GRA, further silos form the background with the maintenance centre with stand-by loco 871 on hand and a couple of ENH hopper waggons. 13th January 2006.
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060113 2542100 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.
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