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208-1-08216 viewsBassendean, Rail Heritage WA Museum, exhibit #21, C class Mikado 2-8-2 steam engine V 1220, one of twenty four locomotives built for Beyer Peacock by Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn Ltd under contract. V 1220 enter service in 1956 and was withdrawn in 1971 and donated to the Museum in 1972.
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208-1-09216 viewsBassendean, Rail Heritage WA Museum, exhibit #, X class leader diesel electric unit X 1001 'Yalagonga' which employed an 2-DO-2 wheel arrangement with 1200 horse power from a Crossley V8 two stroke diesel prime mover.
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160525 4952216 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Aurizon intermodal train 2MP1. Inline fuelling waggon QQFY 4271, originally built for Commonwealth Railways in 1976 by Perry Engineering SA as type RMX, recoded to AQMX, with 70 tonne bogies became AQMY, then RQMY, to QR National in 2007. Seen here with a 30' diesel fuel tanktainer from Nantong Tank Container Company, NTTU 330001 with a 30800 litre capacity. The Perry Engineering plate is also visible.
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208-1-06215 viewsBassendean, Rail Heritage WA Museum, exhibit #14, Pr class Pacific 4-6-2 steam engine Pr 521 'Ashburton', one of ten units built by WAGR Midland Workshops in 1937 as class leader Pr 138 'Ashburton' and renumbered to 521 in 1946. Pr 521 'Ashburton' was also the first of the class to be withdrawn in 1969 and then condemned in 1970 and donated to the Museum in 1971.
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209-01215 viewsEast Perth Passenger Terminal, Westrail L class L 272 Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 69-621 shunts flat waggons around the Indian Pacific consist.
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160525 4937215 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Aurizon intermodal train 2MP1, coupling between locomotives, shows the MU or Multiple Unit cable going into the socket with the red cap, below that with the crimp fitting is the in-line fuel hose between locomotives. Then you also have the train brake pipe and loco control lines and of course the couplers.
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199-08214 viewsMeckering, National Rail NR class units NR 19 and NR 20 both being Goninan built GE Cv40-9i models head up train 7PM5 as they wait for a cross with the Prospector in the loop 1400 hrs 21st June 1997.
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208-1-04214 viewsBassendean, Rail Heritage WA Museum, exhibit #16, U class Pacific 4-6-2 oil burning steam engine U 655, one of fourteen units built by North British Locomotive Co. in 1942 for war service in North Africa, but never deployed. Introduced in 1947, U 655 spent eighteen months being the Bassendean shunter before being condemned in 1970 and donated to the Museum in 1972.
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051101 6419214 viewsParkeston, AHLY 0022 one of sixty five AHBY type ballast hoppers built by EDI Rail at their Port Augusta Workshops for ARG in 2001-02 for the Darwin line construction, now in limestone quarry products service.
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160522 2029214 viewsParkeston, 5MP2 steel train, RKCX type open waggon RKCX 6, originally built by SAR Islington Workshops as an ELX type open waggon ELX 567 in 1966 as part of a batch of seventy waggon, was given to V/Line in 1986 following the derailment write off VOSX 6, with this waggon assuming that identity. Recoded to VCCX type in 1987, then in 1994 to RCCX type.
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160525 4951214 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Aurizon intermodal train 2MP1. Inline fuelling waggon QQFY 4271, originally built for Commonwealth Railways in 1976 by Perry Engineering SA as type RMX, recoded to AQMX, 70 tonne bogies became AQMY, then RQMY, to QR National in 2007. Seen here with two 30' diesel fuel tanktainers from Nantong Tank Container Company, NTTU 330006 and NTTU 330001 each with a 30800 litre capacity, and fuel transfer or pump unit QRIP 06.
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202-03213 viewsMeckering, looking east along the goods siding with the good shed loop points, shed and crane in the distance.
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208-1-05213 viewsBassendean, Rail Heritage WA Museum, exhibit #5, P class Pacific 4-6-2 steam engine P 508, one of ten superheated units built by North British Locomotive Co. in 1923 and entered service as P 448 in 1925, it was renumbered P 508 in 1947 and was withdrawn in 1968 and condemned in 1969 being finally donated to the Museum in 1971.
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060116 2688213 viewsWOA type iron ore waggon WOA 31335 is one of a batch of thirty nine built by WAGR Midland Workshops between 1970 and 1971 with fleet number 215 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations, with a 75 ton and 1018 ft³ capacity, seen here with lump ore at West Kalgoorlie 16th January 2006.
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208-2-09212 viewsEast Perth, narrow gauge Trans Perth two car set with Cravens of Sheffield, England built ADG class on the rear of a Perth bound service.
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051101 6413212 viewsParkeston, AHLY 0044 one of sixty five AHBY type ballast hoppers built by EDI Rail at their Port Augusta Workshops for ARG in 2001-02 for the Darwin line construction, now in limestone quarry products service.
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160525 4953212 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, Aurizon intermodal train 2MP1, crew accommodation coach QCBY 10, started life as Victorian Railways Newport Workshops 1952 build as AS class no. 15, first class air conditioned corridor car, then AS 210, BS 210 and BS 10. Sold to West Coast Railway, then RTS / Gemco and finally to Aurizon.
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186-19211 viewsWoodbridge, National Rail intermodal train 4MP5 on approach to Woodbridge Rd grade crossing as it enters the Forrestfield end of the Woodbridge Triangle.
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200-18211 viewsMoorine Rock, Australian National AN class AN 6 a Clyde Engineering built EMD model JT46C serial 93-1302 and ALF class ALF 24 on the mainline with a Perth bound freight, 22nd June 1997.
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060116 2677211 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, AOPY 32382 with black and white fleet number of 904, 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, 16th January 2006.
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