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A view from NT-36, the Up "Grafton XPT" approaching Wallarobba tunnel on Monday, 1-2-2010. (Graeme Kirkby)

A view from NT-36, Up "Grafton XPT"  approaching the newly (August 2009) extended North end of Mindaribba crossing loop. (1562 metres.) A Down "Hunter" rail car to Dungog waits in the loop.  Monday, 1-2-2010. (Graeme Kirkby)

View from NT-36, the Up "Grafton XPT at Mindaribba showing the new crossing loop at right and the relocated platform now serving the main line. Previously (prior to August 2009) the loop was to the left of the main line and the platform served the loop track.  Monday, 1-2-2010. (Graeme Kirkby)

X104 shunts cement hoppers at Wauchope, 29/9/93 (Glenn Ryan)

3122 on 31st August 1969 heading a special tourist train near Cedar Point

8134 with a Down freight at Baraimal, 25/1/1995 (Bruce Cook)

Byron Bay Jetty (not dated) (Roy Field)

Greg Mashiah:

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The photo would be between July 1954 when the Byron Bay whaling operation commenced - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/225814911 - and 1963 when tramcar C37 was relocated to Sydney - https://www.sydneytramwaymuseum.com.au/.../155-Trolley.... Noting that only tramcar C37 is in the above photo (tramcar 74B having been transported to Sydney in late 1957), it is likely the photo is after than date. I suspect the photo is from 4 November 1961 when there was an SPER tour of the Byron Bay tramway.

The Vintage Train waits in the refuge loop at Stroud Road for the North Coast Daylight Express (hauled by 4305) to pass, on its journey from Grafton to Sydney. The Vintage Train was headed to Kempsey to take part in celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the railway in Kempsey.
Photographed by Graham Palmer, November 1967.

5905 is shunting the River siding (more or less and industrial siding) at Taree on 19th April 1970 (George Stevens)

Blue Circle (Sunstate Cement) (John Grocott)

A point somewhere in the grass (John Grocott)

Fenced off behind a factory (John Grocott)

Line still in place over Buchanan St (John Grocott)

Line hidden in the grass (John Grocott)

Old buffer stop (John Grocott)