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4469+4468+4403 395 Landrigans 10-11-92 (Leon Batman)

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4445+48112 279 Coffs Hbr (Leon Batman)

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4487 Nana Glen 306 03-12-91 (Leon Batman)

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4420 on a down goods at Glenreagh (undated, State Archives)

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Christmas day 1986, Taree loco depot sees 4402 stabled between shifts.  Second of the 44 breed, 4402 continued on for almost another two years, finally being withdrawn from service December 2, 1988. (Chris Harrison)

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4464 is leaving South Grafton across the old timber trestle with the Sydney bound North Coast Mail - 26 July 1982 (Graham Ahern)

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Chris Harrison


8 January 2022  ·


4414 pulls out of Taree with an interstate container train 35 years ago this day, 8 January 1987.  I managed to take a number of images of this unit back and forth through Taree during that summer period.  It seemed that the SRA were committed to getting their money's worth out of the aging loco.  According one source of documentation, 4414 was still kept for operational use until 7 June 1989.

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Chris Harrison:


35 years ago this day on 22 December 1986 saw 4428 still looking reasonably fresh in candy hauling milk and some flat wagons from Taree.  The location for this shot was Kolodong, just south of Taree.

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When Alcos ruled the North Coast and the traffic was such that opposing trains could be found in almost every loop along the line, we see 4485 rolling off Patterson bridge with No. 290 goods on 14 February 1981 (Leon Oberg)

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4474/4480/44223 near Bulliac, New South Wales, with northbound Sydney to Brisbane interstate freight no.6303 on Tuesday 27 July 1993 (Bingley Hall)

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4485 is near Landrigans north of Coffs Harbour with No.11 North Coast Mail - 27 July 1982. (Graham Ahern)

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Taree, 13 December 1985.  Just a couple of features that seem out of place on the north coast.  Before continuing south, 44100 shunts a string of NGAF and/or NGAX grain wagons that are being used for sugar traffic from the far north. In the repair road sits a couple of single deck electric cars far from Sydney, but fresh from a repaint at Goninan's Engineering in Lansdowne.  Later that night the electric cars would be sent back to Sydney.  This was the only time I recalled seeing NGA type wagons passing through Taree. (Chris Harrison)

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4438-44232 on NL36 Grafton Express at Martins Ck. Sunday 7th Feb 1993 (Dave Porter)

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44207 NL35 Grafton express Hilldale Sat 4-7-92 (Rob Porter)

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44222 NL36 Grafton Express Wallarobba Sat 4-7-92 (Rob Porter)