Taree

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The Sydney end of Taree yard, looking compass South-east. At left is 8117 on a stabled goods train. Thursday, 8-12-1994. (Graeme Kirkby)

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4013 in Taree Loco on 28th February 1970 (George Stevens)

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Recent discussion in this group centred around the movement of electric cars between Lansdowne Engineering and Sydney.  I never saw electric sets arrive or depart Taree from the south, so I presume that they were moved with overnight goods, or perhaps on a special trip.  On May 12 1985, I only had a small opportunity to get a couple of shots of L-7517, L-7408, while the sun was still around. The first image here shows as much of both cars as I could see.  This was only after some shunting had taken place to remove some wagons blocking my view shown in the second pic.  As it was, that same day a railmotor car was also present, but where it was going I am not certain. By the next morning, all these carriages had left Taree.
Not the best quality, but some more interesting happenings that once took place in Taree.  In my notebook, these are images 173-175 from my collection, so I was still learning a few things. (Chris Harrison)

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Left to right NSSF sheep wagon x 2 NSCF cattle wagon Group B x 1 NSCF cattle wagon group A x 1 & so on. Photographed in Taree yard circa 1980's note 4 wheel S truck in the background.
The hose is for servicing the cars on the Motorail & Limited.
Photo Phil Calvert collection.

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Some recent discussion within this group centred around the hot steel traffic NKHY wagons that ventured up the north coast.  These wagons had been loaded at the steel works (Newcastle?) with long billets at 400 degrees C.  Signage attached to the wagons warned of the hot condition of the metal.  This signage being permanently attached did of course lose its real value after some time since loading.  However, when these signs originally occurred, it did arouse interest down the line. At Taree, I am told that the shunters when first seeing the signs were intrigued, and took to spitting on the metal to see it if really was hot.  These images taken 11 January, 1988.  *Being summer time, they probably would have been a bit hot anyway. (Chris Harrison)

Brian Cassel:
Waayyy back in 1986 when I first encountered these wagons the hot billets of steel would be loaded directly off rollers glowing red into the wagons. y the time I had taken the train numbers I would be sweating due to the heat coming from them. Working north to Taree you'd keep an eye out for low hanging branches. They usually stopped glowing around Stroud Rd - Gloucester.

Lenore Reinhard - Riddel:
Brian Cassel
Thanks for that info, i knew they where loaded hot 🔥 but not red hot 🥵
Greg Riddel.

Brian Cassel:
Lenore Reinhard - Riddel 2 or 3 deg at midnight, wind howling straight in off the west somewhere and I'd be in a short sleeve shirt - was always amazed they never warped. Somebody smarter than me worked out how long it would take for them to cool down.

Chris Harrison:
Brian Cassel Thanks for that info. 👍 Pretty much correlated the comment I made in the other post that residual heat could still be present by the time they reached Taree provided immediate transit from the steelworks.

Brian Cassel:
Chris HarrisonChris Harrison summer was bad. They wouldn't cool down at all. Relief only on the Sydney end of the platform at Taree. Winter they were ok. But the sides of those wagons would be warped by the heat.

Steve Shotton:

As a young Shunter I would sometimes ride the sides of the wire coil wagons with warm coils in the winter to keep warm, not the hot ones just the warm ones 😆

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Down XPT trail with DMC 1902 & a short consist Taree circa early 80's.
Photo courtesy Phil Calvert collection.
Greg Riddel.

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4426 & 4484 are stowed in the no 3 up siding at Taree with a ballast train circa 1989, of note is the relatively new NDPF ballast plough at the head of the train & adjacent NQIW container wagon of which 55 where built at Landsdowne engineering Taree during 1988 & featured a low deck height along with the 80ft NQJW wagons also made in Australia 🇦🇺 which allowed them to carry the higher 9'6" (2.9m) Jumbo containers until many overhead bridges were lifted to enable the use of standard container wagons for this traffic.
Photo courtesy Phil Calvert collection.
Greg Riddel.

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4511 with no 228 fruit 🍌 express comes into Taree past the long removed North Dock siding, the new Australian National livery is on display applied to the ALGX 4th wagon in consist, circa early 80's change over to CTC period.
Photo courtesy Phil Calvert collection.

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4511 with no 228 fruit 🍌 express comes into Taree past the long removed North Dock siding, the new Australian National livery is on display applied to the ALGX 4th wagon in consist, circa early 80's change over to CTC period.
Photo courtesy Phil Calvert collection.

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Rolling stock notes:
Photo shows five ABSY which are the early style vans that have been detached in Taree yard by SCT.
VFX/ABFX wagons made in Australia 🇦🇺
310 of these vans were built In Adelaide & Western Australia between 1971 & 1978 which means they are more or less around 50 years old.
Also on display is how I'll disciplined we have become as a society, I remember a time when I was a child & my mother would take me into the city by train from Blacktown & there was not one ounce of graffiti anywhere!
Greg Riddel.

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Racing pigeons being released at Taree.

The birds were transported from Sydney (and other area) and released for races well into the 1960s.

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All Change:
Crew change at Taree, down freight led by 44225 on the 25-07-1993.
Photo Late Ray Price
Greg Riddel

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Perway Department:
Railset, 8244 with a loaded railset stowed in Taree yard ready to depart early on Monday morning to unload rails at various locations between Taree & Kempsey on Sunday the 6-12-2020 whilst 7MB4 sits in the loop waiting for the passage of NT31.
Greg Riddel

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3 photo's of brand new NR 3 having just been painted at UGL Taree.
18/10/96
Greg Riddel

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Former no 2 goods siding Taree.
27.08.24 (Greg Riddel)