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060528 4181240 viewsParkeston, South Spur Rail AVDP type crew accommodation coach AVDP 277, built for the Commonwealth Railways by Comeng NSW as a brake van with sleeping accommodation as HRD type HRD 277 in 1971, modified for relay working in 1977, recoded to AVDY in 1983, then in 2002 leased for MurrayLander service before being sold to South Spur Rail and in this livery from mid 2005.
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060528 4258240 viewsParkeston, SCT PDAY type crew accommodation car PDAY 001 'Robert Mervin Yates', built by SAR Islington Workshops as a 250 type Bluebird second class railcar number 253 and named 'Pelican' in 1955, written off in 1995 and sold and eventually converted to a crew car by Bluebird Rail Services in 2005.
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060530 4843240 viewsParkeston, SCT VPAY type crew accommodation car VPAY 2 'Great Artesian' on train 2PM9, built by Tulloch Ltd NSW in 1968 as a narrow gauge brake van with sleeping accommodation as NHRD type NHRD 79, converted to standard gauge in 1981 and coded HRD type HRD 361. Recoded to AVDY in October 1982, then to AVDP. Sold to WCR, then in October 2000 overhauled for crew car use and coded VPAY 1 on SCT services and owned by Freight Australia. Was later sold to Pacific National and subsequently scrapped 2016.
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060604 5579240 viewsMidland, SCT VPAY type crew accommodation car VPAY 3 'Croissant' on train 1PM9, built by Tulloch Ltd NSW in 1971 as a brake van with sleeping accommodation as HRD type HRD 276. Recoded to AVDY in December 1983, then to AVDP. In October 2000 hired to Freight Australia for crew car use as code PVDP, was later sold to Pacific National and subsequently scrapped 2016.
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070529 9423240 viewsWest Kalgoorlie; Pacific National RZDY type crew accommodation car RZDY 106 'Bittern' on train 3PW originally built by SAR Islington Workshops as a Bluebird railcar driving trailer in 1958 named 'Britten', in 1986 numbered 106, in 1990 converted to locomotive hauled and coded as BR type BR 106, written off in 1995 and sold off. In 1998 it was numbered 812. It was owned by a number of owners and then CFCLA. In 2006 converted to a Pacific National crew car.
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070529 9484240 viewsParkeston, SCT VPAY type crew accommodation car VPAY 2 'Great Artesian' on train 2PM9, built by Tulloch Ltd NSW in 1968 as a narrow gauge brake van with sleeping accommodation as NHRD type NHRD 79, converted to standard gauge in 1981 and coded HRD type HRD 361. Recoded to AVDY in October 1982, then to AVDP. Sold to WCR, then in October 2000 overhauled for crew car use and coded VPAY 1 on SCT services and owned by Freight Australia. Was later sold to Pacific National and subsequently scrapped 2016.
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190109 1664240 viewsBinduli, Mineral Resources Ltd empty iron ore train 4030 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00309 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-309 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
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190109 1449240 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, RHTY type tank waggon RHTY 663, one of twelve such waggons built by Industrial Engineering Qld in 1976 for Victorian Railways as TWX type crude benzene tank 56,000 litres. Recoded to VTHX in 1979. After a period of storage ended up in National Rail ownership for Alice Springs traffic, now Pacific National ownership.
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231020 8179240 viewsParkeston, QQYY type 40' container waggon QQYY 57909 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 001578 with Cristal decal and CRM 001479 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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060528 4570239 viewsWO type iron ore waggon WO 31205 is one of a batch of eighty six built by WAGR Midland Workshops between 1967 and March 1968 with fleet number 102 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, with a 75 ton and 1018 ft.³ capacity, seen here loaded with fines ore at Bonnie Vale, 28th May 2006. This unit was converted to WOS superphosphate in the late 1980s till 1994 when it was re-classed back to WO.
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070529 9379239 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 31067 is one of a batch of one hundred and thirty built by Goninan WA between March and August 2001 with serial number 950092-057 and fleet number 653 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, West Kalgoorlie, 29th May 2007.
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100602 8574239 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 33477 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 950211-019 and fleet number 8969 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, the 8 being a addition due to fleet size, build date of 09/2008 with a revised load of 82.5 tonnes with an ARG decal applied to the side, seen here west of Binduli, 2nd June 2010.
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100605 9367239 viewsWO type iron ore waggon WO 31243 is one of a batch of eighty six built by WAGR Midland Workshops between 1967 and March 1968 with fleet number 134 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 WOS superphosphate in the late 1980s till 1994 when it was re-classed back to WO.
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100605 9376239 viewsWO type iron ore waggon WO 31274 is one of a batch of eighty six built by WAGR Midland Workshops between 1967 and March 1968 with fleet number 156 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, with a 75 ton and 1018 ft³ capacity, Binduli Triangle, loaded with fines, 5th June 2010.
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100729 01500239 viewsWOD type iron ore waggon WOD 31455 is one of a batch of sixty two built by Goninan WA between April and August 2000 with serial number 950086-027 and fleet number 518 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations with a 75 ton capacity for Portman Mining to cart their Koolyanobbing iron ore to Esperance, now with PORTMAN painted out, Binduli Triangle, 29th July 2010.
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100729 01514239 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 33539 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 950211-079 and fleet number 9032 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, seen here Binduli Triangle 29th July 2010.
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100822 6259239 viewsWOD type iron ore waggon WOD 31463 is one of a batch of sixty two built by Goninan WA between April and August 2000 with serial number 950086-035 and fleet number 526 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations with a 75 ton capacity for Portman Mining to cart their Koolyanobbing iron ore to Esperance, now with PORTMAN painted out, on empty train 1416 at Hampton, 22nd August 2010.
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060528 4546239 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 33237 is one of a batch of twenty seven built by Goninan WA between September and October 2002 with serial number and fleet number 736 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, Bonnie Vale 28th May 2006.
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060528 4591239 viewsWOE type iron ore waggon WOE 33349 is one of a batch of one hundred and forty one built by United Goninan WA between November 2005 and April 2006 with serial number 950142-054 and fleet number 848 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, builders plate, 28th May 2006.
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PD 12609239 viewsBinduli, comparison between the two styles of WO type iron ore hopper waggons, on the left is the WAGR Midland Workshops built unit WO 31208 and on the right is the Goninan WA built replacement WO 31215 with the newer WOD style body.
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