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130705 0623348 viewsLock, with loading finished, 1203 leads 846, 859 and the final portion along goods siding #1 as it prepares to shunt back onto the loaded portion on the mainline for departure to Port Lincoln.
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130705 0656348 viewsLock, HAN type bogie grain hopper waggon HAN 59 with a crop growing on the waggon end, 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.
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130708 0738348 viewsCharra, Charoban Rd grade crossing, 477.8 km.
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130708 0804348 viewsCharra, crossing loop, 466.2 km.
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130708 0911348 viewsThevenard originally an Kinki Sharyo built NH type for the NAR now coded ENH type ENH 42, without hungry boards loaded with gypsum crossing Bergmann Drive grade crossing, 434.2 km.
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PD 12844348 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AOPY 32387 with fleet number 914, 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.
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PD 12860348 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AOPY 32403 with fleet number 932, 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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060530 4940348 viewsParkeston, AHQF 31423 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.
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060603 5262 ATPY592P348 viewsMidland, ATPY 592 fuel tank waggon built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1976 as one of four WJP type for AMPOL, capacity of 80500 litres, here in Caltex service.
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070529 9409348 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, ATBY 14597 fuel tank waggon built by Westrail Midland Workshops in a batch of nine in 1981 for Bain Leasing Pty Ltd as type JPB, 82,000 litres but 14591 was issued to standard gauge as WJPB type, in 1986 it was converted to narrow gauge as JPBA type.
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100609 09973348 viewsMidland, AQRY 1021 two-pack platform B loaded with two 20' Interpool and Mediterranean Shipping 22G1 type containers containing lead, IPXU 396241 and MSCU 645985. The AQRY are a bar-coupled pair and were used for rail transport as the AFRF type on the Darwin line and are originally former ANR-CR waggons.
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100609 09986348 viewsMidland, AZDY 30733, one of about fourteen WBAX vans converted to AZDY type sodium cyanide container waggon, originally built by WAGR Midland Workshops as one of seventy five WV/X type covered vans in 1967-68, converted late 1988/9 to WQDF. Loaded here with two empty AGR sodium cyanide tanktainers SD 662 and SD 643.
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100609 10015348 viewsMidland, AQWY 30348 container flat waggon built by Tomlinson Steel WA as WFX type in 1970 from a batch of one hundred and sixty one waggons, to narrow gauge as QWF type in 1970, back to SG in 1972 as WFX, recoded in 1979 to WQCX type. Loaded with two 20' Mediterranean Shipping 22G1 type containers MSCU 672393 and MEDU 121561.
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100611 0341348 viewsMidland, WGL 638 open waggon in nickel matte bulk bag traffic, converted in 1984 from Westrail Midland Workshop built WFN type waggon WFN 601 from a built of ten units for WMC traffic in 1975.
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100611 0343348 viewsMidland, AOXY 33075 open waggon, converted to carry nickel matte bulk bags similar to the WGL type traffic, AOXY 33075 was originally built by WAGR Midland Workshop between 1966-67 as one of a batch of one hundred, was recoded to WGS for superphosphate traffic in 1969 till 1980.
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100611 0353348 viewsMidland, APNY 3115, one of twelve built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1974 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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100611 0384348 viewsMidland, ATEY 4724 diesel fuel tank waggon in service for BP Oil, former NSW AMPOL NTAF tank, coded WTEY when arrived in WA.
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100731 3231348 viewsBinduli, AQHY 30037 with sulphuric acid tank CSA 0060, originally built by the WAGR Midland Workshops in 1964/66 at WF type flat waggons, then following several codes and modifications in 1997 seventy five were converted to WQH to carry CSA sulphuric acid tanks between Hampton/Kalgoorlie and Perth/Kwinana.
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224-34348 viewsBing siding, the afternoon empty to Yandi was a staple of the AC6000 units when delivered, operating the train as a pair, 112 waggons, AC6000 and 112 waggons. 6076 'Mt Goldsworthy' serial 51068 a General Electric AC6000 built by GE at Erie departs the loop south with sister unit 6073. GeoData.
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226-26348 viewsShaw siding at the 219 km a loaded train with power from two Goninan CM40-8M GE rebuild units 5642 'Wallareenya' serial 8281-07 / 92-131 and sister unit 5636, the mid-train remotes can be seen in the distance topping the grade. GeoData.
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