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Cooks River Yard, Sydenham, NSW

Cooks River Yard is a staging point for many regional NSW freight services, which will often arrive as empty wagons from Port Botany and shunt the yard prior to departing to points North, West or South-West. It is a multi-user yard well populated with different operators, including Pacific National (Manildra Group), Qube Logistics, Freightliner and Sydney Rail Services. Former operator Independent Railways of Australia (now part of Qube Logistics) store a lot of their active and inactive motive power in the nearby James Siding. In addition to the container yard, Boral have a large facility alongside Alexandria Canal, and Pacific National shunt this siding twice daily with stone and sand traffic from Dunmore, as well as a nightly cement trip train from nearby Clyde Yard.

Masters Siding, Mascot, NSW

Named for the siding at this location, this is a publicly accessible footbridge over the Metropolitan Goods Line at Mascot, located between Port Botany Yard and Cooks River Yard. An excellent viewing platform for traffic operating between Cooks River and Port Botany, and particularly good for photography on sunny winter days, as the sun is always on the side of the train (and usually on the nose too). Be warned that there is NO parking, best access is to walk from Mascot Station (CityRail and a 20 minute walk), or catch a route 400 bus (State Transit) from Rockdale or Domestic Airport stations. There does APPEAR to be parking nearby, however Australian Federal Police have been known to move people on in the past, and it is not worth the worry. Daytime traffic typically starts at approx 0800 and continues until approx 1500. As well as container traffic, there is often light engine movements being made and shunts between Cooks River, Masters Siding and Port Botany.

Tempe, NSW

A short walk from Tempe train station (approx 3min), down to Waterworth park to view trains run over Cooks river railway bridge at Tempie