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249-04387 viewsYule River bridge looking north from the 160 km on the BHP mainline. The third pier from the southern end was undermined by flood waters from Tropical Cyclone John in December 1999. The rail line was closed for two weeks while repairs were effected. Approximate location.
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249-17387 viewsTable Hill on the Robe River railway line, looking in a northerly direction as the railway line snakes north and heads through Lockyer Gap towards Cape Lambert. Following a very wet 1999 cyclone season Lake Poongkaliyarra is very full. Approximate location.
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251-01387 viewsNelson Point, BHP's recently retired Goninan WA ALCo C636 to GE C36-7M rebuild unit 5510 awaits its fate. Rebuilt in 1987 at Goninan's Welshpool factory from 1969 AE Goodwin built ALCo C636 with serial number G6027-2 and road number 5458 and assigned new serial number 4839-07 / 87-075. It was delivered in Mt Newman Mining orange and was named Newman. It received Dash 8 radiators following collision damage in 1993. 22nd April 2000.
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257-18387 viewsFlash Butt yard Mount Newman Mining's last in-service ALCo M636 unit 5499 serial C6096-4 built by Comeng NSW awaits its fate. Late 2021.
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WTT Suburban Goods 1982 Nov 01387 viewsSuburban Goods Train Time-Tables for Parts I and II of the Metropolitan District Working Time-Table.
1st November 1982.
20 pages, 11.4 MB download.
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245-24387 viewsWudinna, empty grain stands on the main awaiting departure north 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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140601 4620387 viewsMidland, loaded iron ore train #1030 heading to Kwinana, CFCLA leased CHEY type waggon CHEY 8048 one pair of 120 bar coupled pairs built by Bluebird Rail Operations SA in 2011-12. 1st June 2014.
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160710 iPh5S 2787387 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Pyramid Pool looking north along the western wall of the gorge. Geodata.
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231020 8262387 viewsBinduli, 5029 Malcolm Freighter, AQIY type 40' container waggon AQIY 00005 with two Bis Industries hard-top 25U0 type sulphur containers BISU 100011 and BISU 100113. The AQIY were originally built as the CQYY but CFCLA did not buy them, Bradken then stored them as KQYY. When Aurizon bought them they had the handbrake relocated to the middle of the waggon from the end.
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231020 8145387 viewsParkeston, QQYY type 40' container waggon QQYY 57759 one of five hundred ordered by Aurizon and built by CRRC Yangtze Group of China in 2022. In service with two loaded 20' half height hard top 'rotainers' lettered CRM, for Cristal Mining before they were absorbed into Tronox, CRM 000687 with Tronox decal and CRM 001564 with Cristal decal, on Aurizon's Tronox mineral sands train 4UP1 from Ivanhoe / Broken Hill (NSW) to Kwinana (WA). 20th of October 2023.
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100603 9026387 viewsParkeston, SCT train 3MP9, ABSY type covered van ABSY 2505, originally built by Mechanical Handling Ltd SA in 1972 for Commonwealth Railways as VFX type recoded to ABFX and then RBFX before being converted from ABFY by Gemco WA to ABSY type in 2004/05.
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140-1-24386 viewsBallarat North or C Signal Box, looking west, semaphore signal post 4, left arm is the Down Home to Ararat line, right arm is Down Home Maryborough line, and the disc is for the workshops sidings, the wheel for the interlocked swing gates can be seen in the window of the signal box.
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060528 4439386 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, looking across to the waggon repair facility, in the foreground is flat waggon AFBF 33178 modified for kibble service originally built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1970 as a WGX type open waggon, but behind is red carded WO type waggon WO 31286 with fleet number 166 and WOE type WOE 33256 with fleet number 755. 28th May 2006.
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060528 4489386 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AOPY 32385, fleet number 910, 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.
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060528 4568386 viewsWOC type iron ore waggon WOC 31341 is leader of a batch of thirty built by Goninan WA between October 1997 to January 1998 with fleet number 401 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations with a 75 ton capacity and lettered for KIPL, Koolyanobbing Iron Pty Ltd, seen here loaded with fines ore at Bonnie Vale in train number 413, 28th May 2006.
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060528 4586386 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 33380 is one of a batch of one hundred and forty one built by United Group Rail WA between November 2005 and April 2006 with serial number 950142-085 and fleet number 879 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations loaded with fines at Bonnie Vale 28th May 2006.
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060531 5008386 viewsBinduli, AOPY 32399, fleet number 922, 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 the consist with sister waggons of a loaded train bound for West Kalgoorlie, 31st May 2006.
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100602 8686386 viewsWOD type iron ore waggon WOD 31485 is one of a batch of sixty two built by Goninan WA between April and August 2000 with serial number 950086-057 and fleet number 548 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations with a 75 ton capacity for Portman Mining to cart their Koolyanobbing iron ore to Esperance, PORTMAN has been painted out, West Kalgoorlie loaded with fines, 2nd June 2010.
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100602 8685386 viewsWOB type iron ore waggon WOB 31391 is one of a batch of twenty five built by Comeng WA between 1974 and 1975 and converted from Mt Newman high sided waggons by WAGR Midland Workshops with a capacity of 67 tons with fleet number 316 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations. This waggon was also converted to a WSM type ballast hopper by re-fitting the cut down top section and having bottom discharge doors fitted, converted back to WOB in 1998, loaded with fines in West Kalgoorlie 2nd June 2010.
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100605 9373386 viewsWO type iron ore waggon WO 31278 is one of a batch of eighty six built by WAGR Midland Workshops between 1967 and March 1968 with fleet number 158 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, with a 75 ton and 1018 ft³ capacity, Binduli Triangle, loaded with fines, 5th June 2010. This unit was converted to WOC for coal in 1986 till 1994 when it was re-classed back to WO.
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