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030407 09490887 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.

030407 10083487 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.

030407 11433887 viewsPoochera, empty grain train arrives 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, DA 4 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, to shunt off empty waggons and pick up the loaded ones. 7th April 2003.

030411 11052387 viewsKimba, concrete pre-fab station building doors.

030411 11055487 viewsKimba, yard view looking south, mainline on the right, Ascom loadout gantry and silo with horizontal bunker beyond that. Eyre Highway grade crossing in the distance.

030411 14134287 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.

060108 207187 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.

060109 214687 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.

060113 245987 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.

060113 254487 viewsKevin, narrow gauge locos 1604, NJ 3 and 1601 take the mainline to Thevenard, having reversed train 6DD3 on the Kevin triangle as they prepare to load, 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.

130703 014087 viewsMurdinga, bogie grain hopper waggon HAN 47, one of sixty eight units built by South Australian Railways Islington Workshops between 1969 and 1973 as the HAN type for the Eyre Peninsula system.

130704 050687 viewsMoule, view of the massive silo complex of Thevenard in the distance across the water, they are approximately 13 km away, location here. 4th July 2013.

130705 051787 viewsLock, grain train loading in progress with the Viterra fast flow auger in the distance, the train with 1203, 846 and 859 is about to split and shunt half the consist onto the mainline. 5th of July 2013.

130708 072287 viewsCharra,

PD 1285487 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AOPY 32377 with fleet number 906, was renumbered to 4906 but the 4 has been removed, 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.

PD 1285987 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AOPY 34073 with fleet number 935, 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.

PD 1286187 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AOPY 34098 with fleet number 965 and of the drop floor type, 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, seen here in a rake with sister waggons.

PD 1286587 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AOPY 32408 with fleet number 937, was renumbered to 4906 but the 4 has been removed, 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, seen here in a rake with sister waggons.

060528 441487 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 441787 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQHY 30097 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0008, 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.

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