Main south question.

decry1234 · Beginner Joined: Sep 16, 2008 Last Visited: Sep 22, 2008

hello all,

first time poster long time lurker.

has been a long while since my last trip photographing/chasing trains.

am wondering if Sunday is a good day for action on the main south?

thanks in advance.

Nathan.

4464 · Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 12:06 am

Depending on where you are lookin to gunzel?
Because obviously times will be different depending on locations!

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decry1234 · Beginner Joined: Sep 16, 2008 Last Visited: Sep 22, 2008

hello again.

the stretch from macarthur to mossvale.

N.

NSWRTM123 · Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 8:53 am

Moss Vale has some reasonable gunzelling on a sunday between 12:00 and 4:00p.m.

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trendyh · Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 1:23 pm

Freightwise its not much,7MB4 through Bargo around 8am than if QRn's 7BM7's operates its due through main south around 7am-8am but rarely ontime,comes whenever.
7BM4 is due through Picton around 230pm.

Maybe lucky to get a Grain running or a cement with couple of Tahmoor coalies running buts that its on a Sunday during sunlight hours unless something runs late in the morning like SX,BA6 or BM2

Saturday usually get 6MB7 and 6MB4 running between main south 6-9am,than 3PW4 and 4 PS6 between 11am-1pm.

Than on Down line you get 7NY3 which is due through Campbelltown 11am,usually late,7SP5 due through Campbelltown 3pm and 6BM4 through Campbelltown 415pm

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NSWRTM123 · Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 2:27 pm

Slightly Incorrect. You also get a coalie around 12:00, a PN wheat at about 12:30, and stone trains shuttling back and forth from Berrima Cement Works.

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janesmith1 · Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 5:50 pm

http://www.artc.com.au/library/SWTT_V1_S1.pdf
try that link it should help you.

decry1234 · Beginner Joined: Sep 16, 2008 Last Visited: Sep 22, 2008

cheers people.

dusted of the old slr today.

any idea what motive power might be leading 7BM4 tomorrow?

decry1234 · Beginner Joined: Sep 16, 2008 Last Visited: Sep 22, 2008

so i headed down to menangle to try and catch 7BM4 but it never arrived.

any idea if it ran well early/very late?

42209 · Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 1:55 pm

Hi Dercy, through my experiences the afternoon QRN BM/SM trains often run late or miss getting through before the metrop curfew kicks in. This may explain why you didn't see it. Also note that trains don't always follow the exact times tabled in the SWTT. I tend to use it as a rough guide if at all.
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Fireman Dave · Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 3:39 pm

42209 · Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 4:14 pm

Sorry about that decry1234, as Fireman Dave so bluntly pointed out, I misread your post and was refering to the QRN train where as you were talking about the PacNat job. Sorry about the mix-up. In saying that, it's possible that the same may apply for BM4. Just something to be aware of Smile

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TE2815 · Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 4:42 pm

I didn't want to say it but he was also out on Sunday so there was no real curfew either Razz

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42209 · Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:19 pm

Ah right. I'm no expert so in that case I don't know the answer.

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