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Comeng Gunzel
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 3:01 pm
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Does anybody know what time oil trains come through, and what spots in the Fyshwick area would be a good observation spot?
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" The trains at Pennant Hills run roughly every half hour. Nobody in their right mind uses a service that shoddy. That so many do just proves how many dumb and/or desperate people there are in Sydney." - MrPC
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Fireman Dave
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 6:27 pm
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| Somebody in the WWW wrote: | Does anybody know what time oil trains come through, and what spots in the Fyshwick area would be a good observation spot?
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The oily comes in early (between 2 and 4am) and leaves about 1730 on tuesdays and thursdays, and saturdays when required. Ipswich st and Newcastle street bridges are fairly good publically accessable locations. It is also possible to see the shunt at Shell from Ipswich st.
Dave Malcolm
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Comeng Gunzel
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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 12:14 am
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Thanks .
What would normal motive power be?
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Fireman Dave
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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 9:40 am
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2x X class.
Dave Malcolm
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G516
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 3:25 pm
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G'day all, am up in Canberrra until tomorrow and i saw yesterday the oil train had X45 (still with FA lettering), 8050 in PN livery and 8152 in Freightcorp. Looked quiet good.
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EL60
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Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 6:31 am
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| G516 wrote: | | G'day all, am up in Canberrra until tomorrow and i saw yesterday the oil train had X45 (still with FA lettering), 8050 in PN livery and 8152 in Freightcorp. Looked quiet good. |
cool hope you had a good time up there Alex
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sambo
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 10:17 pm
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I just saw the train go thru, with 8050 and an X class up front. No shunt at Shell tho.
Theres a good spot at the back of Bing Lee and Nick Scarli, where you can park and watch, right next to the track!
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steven_h
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 10:37 pm
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8050 and the X pulled up the old main from canberra station (after a run around) at 5am this morning and stopped just past the shell depot... from then I imagine they shunted the old cars out and the new cars in...
I happened to be driving back from teh airport at 5am just in time to hear those beasts roar to a halt just behind the CSR depot on the other side of the line from Hardley Normals.
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