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Eumungerie Railway: Turning locos at Coonamble
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A history of the NSWGR's Coonamble branch line. Turning locos at Coonamble. Just a quick blog to publicise a terrific little article by Jim Stokes in this month's Railway History on turning C32 class locos on the 50 foot turntable at Coonamble. Having now read the article about 5 times I still can't work out who had the worse job- the fireman who got to push the turntable or the driver who had to hang onto the rear end of a tenderless 32 class. If you have a spare $8.40 it's a bargain! South of the Range.
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NSW Rail Rambler: Getting out of Mexico
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A collection of photographs and stories from five decades of train chasing. Friday, August 7, 2015. Getting out of Mexico. A couple of weeks ago I posted a blog about the Melbourne Express, otherwise known as the MEX. The counterpart service was called the Sydney Express, but it was rarely described in the shortened form. When the Express started it was a much larger train than its 1990s version. Here it is stretched out through Wilton in 1986 with double 81s up front. And now to where it finished, the b...
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Eumungerie Railway: May 2014
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A history of the NSWGR's Coonamble branch line. In early 1968 Dubbo loco depot staff apparently took to their yard shunters with imagination and a nod to history. The following two photographs record their efforts, some months after they occurred. In a marginally less deteriorated slide, 3144T's stablemate, 3028T, was snapped on the same day. Two very fine looking elderly ladies! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Armchair Modeller Down Under. Greg's Railway Modelling Musings. Iain Robinson - Modelmaking. Laker...
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Eumungerie Railway: November 2014
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A history of the NSWGR's Coonamble branch line. Not where I thought? Here is a photograph of a fairly everyday experience from about 1965 (I think). The loco in question - 3222 - was allocated to Dubbo in 1965 and 1966. It looks like the train it has behind it is a very healthy up pickup, with wool and wheat loading. I had always had this photograph pegged as Gilgandra - principally due to the fact that the word 'Gil' was written on the slide mounting frame! Fairy reasonable conclusion to draw. Random Bo...
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Eumungerie Railway: A small correction: never say never
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A history of the NSWGR's Coonamble branch line. A small correction: never say never. About four years ago on this blog I ran through all of the railway proposals associated with the Coonamble railway that I was aware of. None of these ever made it to fruition, of course, though several from Gilgandra made eminent sense. So I better correct the record. Walgett via Collie, Quambone and Carinda. The mayoral minute at the centre of the proposal suggested it would be 'tapping a vast area of fertile lands ...
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Eumungerie Railway: How to store wheat
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A history of the NSWGR's Coonamble branch line. How to store wheat. It has been a while, however it is not lack of interest, just time. As mentioned in earlier posts, I have been trawling Trove - the Australian National Library's excellent digitised newspaper (and other documents) service for stories about the Coonamble line. It was always a manageable task until Trove recently uploaded years of the Wellington Times. Narromine News and Trangie Advocate. And the Gilgandra and Castlereagh Weekly. Before th...
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Eumungerie Railway: May 2015
http://eumungerierail.blogspot.com/2015_05_01_archive.html
A history of the NSWGR's Coonamble branch line. Turning locos at Coonamble. Just a quick blog to publicise a terrific little article by Jim Stokes in this month's Railway History on turning C32 class locos on the 50 foot turntable at Coonamble. Having now read the article about 5 times I still can't work out who had the worse job- the fireman who got to push the turntable or the driver who had to hang onto the rear end of a tenderless 32 class. If you have a spare $8.40 it's a bargain! South of the Range.
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Eumungerie Railway: April 2014
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A history of the NSWGR's Coonamble branch line. A few semi-precious rocks. From 1913 to 1941 the Rail Commissioners published most excellent annual reports, full of detail and with an acerbic commentary. While Eumungerie didn’t get much attention in the second element, it did have a full set of data published about its railway activities – comings and goings of people and things. Anyway, a couple of columns attracted my attention and for once it had nothing to do with wheat. By ‘other’, both ...On the in...
