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130708 0739355 viewsCharra, Charoban Rd grade crossing, 477.8 km.
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130708 0761355 viewsCharra, originally an Kinki Sharyo built NH type for the NAR now coded ENH type ENH 38 P, without hungry boards loaded with gypsum, Charoban Rd grade crossing, 477.8 km.
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PD 12607355 viewsBinduli, WO type iron ore waggon WO 31209 is leader of a batch of sixty two built by Goninan WA between April and August 2000 with serial number 950086-001 and fleet number 105 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, and is a Goninan built replacement WO type waggon with a build date of 05/2000, this replaces the original WAGR built WO type waggon with a WOD type with square features opposed to the curved ones as on the original WO. Also note the angled lip extension to the top of the body.
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PD 12848355 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AOPY 32382 with black and white fleet number of 904, 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.
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060527 4138355 viewsScotia, AQCY 30233 flat waggon, one of forty five waggons built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1974 as WFX type, recoded in 1981 to WQCX. Here carrying six loaded nickel ore kibbles and the end of train marker.
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060528 4452355 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ECA 98 a former Commonwealth Railways ARF type first class air conditioned sleeper with rounded observation end built by Wegmann and delivered in 1956, converted to BB type with observation end removed in August 1972, converted to crew car in 1991.
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060528 4648355 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 coupler. Converted to narrow gauge 1986 and recoded JPC.
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060528 4652355 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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070527 9170355 viewsParkeston, ALGY 40 built by South Australian Railways Islington Workshops in 1968 as a batch of fifty six LX type louvre vans, recoded to ALGX. Here it was in use on Loongana Limestone traffic.
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070529 9326355 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, WGLA 30027 originally built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1965 as WF type bogie flat waggon, to WFW in 1974, then converted to bagged nickel matte traffic WGLA type in 1984.
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100601 8474355 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, WNB type pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon WNB 542, one of six units built by Bluebird Rail Services SA in 2010 for BHP Billiton.
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100601 8519355 viewsParkeston, APNY 31162, final one of twelve units built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1974 as WNA type pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon, WAGR units built and owned copies of the AE Goodwin units built WN waggons for WMC.
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100602 8676355 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AQRY 1012, part of a bar coupled pair, ex AFRF type two-pack rail transport waggon, last used on the Darwin line. Loaded with two 20' 22G1 type containers, Hapag-Lloyd HLXU 346611 and Gateway GATU 076734.
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100609 10010355 viewsMidland, ATDY 4723 diesel fuel tank waggon, former NTAF in service for BP Oil, former AMPOL tank, coded WTDY when arrived in WA.
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100611 0346355 viewsMidland, APNY 31163, one of four built by Westrail Midland Workshops in 1978 as WNA type pneumatic discharge nickel concentrate waggon, WAGR built and owned copies of the AE Goodwin built WN waggons for WMC.
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051101 6484355 viewsParkeston, AHBY 0003 one of sixty five AHBY type 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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191-21355 viewsKilmore East, Victorian Railways liveried B class B 65 Clyde Engineering EMD model ML2 serial ML2-6 leads an UP special sleeper discharge train as it discharges sleepers near the '37 mile', leading waggon is VZCA type VZCA 1 kicker transport waggon, former standard gauge signal post ES 1951 visible in the distance on a Sunday.
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226-16355 viewsShaw North, 216.5 km, departure signals SWN 4 for the mainline and SWN 6 for the loop for loaded trains that are about to descend the steep 1.5 percent decent to Garden Siding. Dragging equipment detection bars visible, they are painted yellow and the interlocking room with solar array mounted above the cutting. GeoData.
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230-15355 viewsYandi Two load-out tunnel exit side portal, Goninan rebuild GE CM40-8M model 5654 'Kashima' serial 8412-11/93-145 creeps out of the tunnel as its train is loaded at 1.2 km/h. The livery is the marigold version of the BHP Australia logo. Geodata -22.718338, 119.039909 .
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232-12355 viewsYandi One backtrack, following a cyclone shutdown of the mainline and severe flooding around Yandi a 'mixed' freight train was operated to Yandi to deliver food, mail and diesel fuel to the mine and camp. Here BHP Iron Ore CM40-8M unit 5639 'Corunna Downs' serial 8281-03 / 92-128 idles away in the backtrack awaiting its path back to Port Hedland with flat waggon 6703, four fuel tank waggons and a broken ore waggon. February 1997. GeoData.
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