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030406 142314426 viewsKapinnie, yard overview looking east towards Yeelanna, concrete silo complexes and outflow spouts on the right. 6th April 2003.

030407 094147426 viewsMinnipa, station yard view from the grain siding storage roads looking north, mainline to the right, silo out-flow spouts. 7th April 2003.

030407 094220426 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 100506426 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 serial no. 84137, 851 having been on the Eyre Peninsula since delivered in 1962, to shunt off empty waggons into the grain siding. 7th April, 2003.

030411 142235426 viewsNunjikompita, yard or station location sign, located about a kilometre out from the actual location. Fresh ballast is on the line.

030411 154018426 viewsWirrulla 333.2 km, yard overview looking south from the Thevenard end on Gawler Ranges Road, horizontal bunker with two blocks of concrete silos on the left.

030411 160238426 viewsCungena, 306.7 km, yard overview looking south from Thevenard end, Ascom style silo complex block 2 with concrete block 1 behind it. Station shelter visible behind tree.

060109 2125426 viewsKyancutta, ASR 830 class unit 842, an AE Goodwin built ALCo DL531 model loco serial 84140 leads EMD unit 1204 due to air-conditioning trouble and sister ALCo 851 as they shunt empty grain waggons on the silo loop. 9th January 2006.

060111 2288426 viewsWarrachie, 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 leads an empty grain train between Murdinga and Lock. 11th January 2006.

060111 2376426 viewsKyancutta, 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.

060111 2391426 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.

060111 2403426 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, shunts through the yard.

060113 2435426 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.

060113 2449426 viewsThevenard, class leader 1601, a Clyde Engineering built EMD model JL22C serial 71-728, originally built for the Central Australia Railway in 1971 as NJ class leader NJ 1 'Ben Chifley' and transferred to the Eyre Peninsula in 1981. 13th January 2006.

060113 2455426 viewsThevenard, AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 built for the SAR as 830 class locomotive 871 serial G3422-1 was issued when built in 1966 to the Eyre Peninsula division of South Australian Railways. Still wearing Australian National green and yellow but with ASR decals as it stands in the yard with a couple of ENH type hopper waggons. 13th January 2006.

130704 0374426 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.

130704 0506426 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.

130708 0767426 viewsCharra, originally an Kinki Sharyo built NH type for the NAR now coded ENH type ENH 13 A, without hungry boards loaded with gypsum, Charoban Rd grade crossing, 477.8 km.