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060528 4430423 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AOPY 32386 with fleet number 4913, the 4 being a recent addition, 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, 28th May 2006.

060531 5020423 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AOPY 34096 with fleet number 964 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, 31st May 2006.

100731 02287423 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 33470 is one of a batch of one hundred and twenty eight built by United Group Rail WA between August 2008 and March 2009 with serial number 950211-012 and fleet number 8970 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, the 8 being a addition due to fleet size, build date of 06/2006 with a revised load of 82.5 tonnes, with PORTMAN painted out and an ARG decal applied to the side, on loaded train 6413 at Binduli Triangle, 31st July 2010.

030405 155752423 viewsLock, yard overview looking north along the grain siding, mainline to the right, Ascom style silo complex Block 5 with outflow spout visible on the left, point lever and indicator for horizontal grain shed siding in the middle of frame, and transfer auger across tracks. 5th April 2003.

030407 094220423 viewsMinnipa, station yard view looking north down No. 3 Road, crossover for grain siding and points for storage roads on the left, points, lever and indicator for No. 1 Road of mainline on the right. 7th April, 2003.

030407 104644423 viewsPoochera, station yard overview looking north from south end of yard, point levers and indicators for sidings, on the left is the horizontal grain shed with an Ascom style silo complex behind it, on the right the goods shed can be made out along with the SACBH concrete silo complexes. 7th April 2003.

060111 2272423 viewsPeachna, Tooligie Hill Road grade crossing, empty grain train running north behind 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. 11th January 2006.

060111 2271423 viewsTooligie, empty grain train running north behind 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. 11th January 2006.

060111 2326423 viewsWarramboo, Kimba Road grade crossing, 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, here shunting off the grain siding and back to the mainline to resume the journey north. 11th January 2006.

060111 2394423 viewsWannamana, 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 here leading a north bound empty grain train heading to Wudinna. Wannamana was located at the 210 km and opened in January 1927, this scene is some 79 years later. The siding was closed in April 1957. 11th January 2006.

060113 2434423 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.

130704 0422423 viewsKyancutta, south bound loaded grain train has stopped here to collect a loaded rack of grain waggons, seen here backing up to re-join the rest of the train on the mainline with one of only three electric signals on the network with the original goods siding closest to the camera, behind EMD 1204 and twin ALCo 830 units 873 and 851. 4th July 2013.

130704 0480423 viewsKyancutta, HCN type bogie grain hopper waggon HCN 21, originally an NHB type hopper built by Tulloch Ltd for the Commonwealth Railways North Australia Railway. One of forty rebuilt by Islington Workshops 1978-79 to the HCN type with a 36 ton rating, increased to 40 tonnes in 1984. Seen here loaded with grain with a Moose Metalworks roll-top cover.

130705 0528423 viewsLock, 1203, 846 and 859 shunt their loading grain train out of the siding onto the mainline. Genesee & Wyoming locomotive AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 unit 859 'City of Port Lincoln' serial 84705, built in 1963, 859 started life at Peterborough, spent some years in Tasmania and even spent time in Perth on standard gauge in 2002 before being repainted and transferred to the Eyre Peninsula system in 2003. 5th of July 2013.

130705 0608423 viewsLock, up end looking down through Lock, Viterra fast loader loading train while loaded portion sits on the mainline.

130708 0875423 viewsThevenard, loaded train running through the back of the yard parallel to Bergmann Drive, 434.2 km.

060528 4635423 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ATPF 579 fuel tank waggon built by WAGR Midland Workshops 1974 for Shell as WJP type 80.66 kL one compartment one dome, fitted with type F InterLock couplers.

060530 4911423 viewsParkeston, AHQF 31440 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.

060530 4929423 viewsParkeston, AHBY 0032 one of sixty five AHBY class 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.