[quote=beanzs27]My understanding was that the main western line was built to Bourke to take the Darling river trade, similar to Echuca. Yet when I looked at a map of Bourke and on google maps it appea ...

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As it is a new frame does it qualify as a new tender? What Tender Tab does it now wear, if any, or is it a new Tender Tab, eg; 3536 (assuming the next available Tender Tab 13xx was ...

[quote=a6et][quote]If the condition of per way Cowra-Woodstock possible for accreditation then ,that would be a quite a pleasant run ,through so much heritage areas. The Carcoar tunnel is too daunting ...

[quote=james.au][url=http://freight.transport.nsw.gov.au/network/rail/riverina-rft.html]http://freight.transport.nsw.gov.au/network/rail/riverina-rft.html

Transport for NSW has released a Request ...

What vehicles were damaged/destroyed in the fire?

Might stir up some trouble here but, being a die-hard NSW Steam foamer, I think that 1089 looks like a kids battery operated Christmas train

[quote=Rod Avery]I was up at Bowning today, watching the ARTC works and noticed the track still had a small number (4-5) of timber sleepers under the now otherwise continuous concrete sleepered line. ...

I understand that 3112 was moved by Australian Train Movers a week or so ago.   Any further information, please?

[quote=DL_Daily]Yep and I completely F'd up trying to get video of it, spotted at Griffith station and it appeared to have done Griffith-Hilston-Griffith and I thought it was heading to Temora via Yen ...

[quote=Westby3026]I was marking lambs between milbulong and French park 2 days ago (20/8) and in the distance I saw 2 locos of unknown class and 3x stainless passenger carriages travelling in the up d ...

[quote=konkos]How true and thanks a6et on setting the records straight on the outset. The fact still remains that it's a remarkable feat that 6029 will be a goer very soon at last we all should be ver ...

[quote=kuldalai]Effective 1802 Dn Albury VLP Tuesday 29/07/14 all VLP sg Passes back to normal operation right through to/ from Southern Cross.Midday VLP passes both ways resume operation as trains th ...

As mentioned previously in this thread.... BG locos are 704 (now out of service?); 841; 843; 844 as well as 831 that was hired out to PSP to shunt the Osborne plant.

How many locomotives were retained on the broad gauge specifically for working this train?

3820 was retained temporarily as an additional restricted traffic engine at the time as there was a large number of public charter trains where the organisers had specifically requested steam haulage. ...

It could be said that ARTC's income from the Hunter Valley operations is the cream on the cake and thus indirectly subsidises it obligations elsewhere within NSW.   Take that away, and what is the res ...

What "old railway stations around Maitland"?

Is she referring to the small halts on the North Coast line to Dungog, or on the South Maitland Railways?

Surely she can't be thinking of the East Maitla ...

Why not a term lease, as is the case with ARTC in NSW?   The lessee would be required to meet any upgrade costs as well as maintenance, and also be required to provide priority for passenger services  ...

Anything is possible - at a cost.   And who do you suggest should pay for the work?   And why?

Don't forget No. 1 is on display at the Powerhouse Museum as well.

A trailing crossover at Strathfield needs to be rail-cleaned, and a train reversing in P1 or P2 can do this.

The section is more widely known as the North Strathfield Triangle.   As well as the movements previously mentioned, school hired trains from the Hornsby line to Olympic Park are sometimes tabled to r ...

Please explain what you are actually seeking!

I am sure it will.. Single decks carry more people??? Since when?

However, there COULD also be "residential sites".   These were where the employee leased the Railway land and constructed his own private residence on it.   The improvements could be sold to another e ...