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7317 yard shunter stabled in one of the turntable roads at Taree loco, now ARTC storage yard.
Circa 1980's
Photo late Rodney James

Crew change at Taree
8233 with the ARHS special.
WHX/NGDX grain wagons to the right for repairs at A.Goninan & co Landsdowne.
Taree
June 1995 (Greg Riddel)

BAM sleeper once used on mail trains in the consist.
Taree
June 1995 (Greg Riddel)

One headlight 8233 coming into Taree on a ARHS special with the North dock still in place.
June 1995 (Greg Riddel)

The Tasman Limited in Winter: view from the cab. With much of the difficult sections of the Main Line behind it, the train rounds the big curve out of the tunnel and into the yard at Rhyndaston. The station sits on the right of the Main Line whilst a wagon fitted with a high platform for inspections and maintenance of the tunnel sits in the loop siding. A water tank is nearby. In the early years of the TGR the legendary Mrs Delaney ran a small shop at Rhyndaston and regularly boarded the express service to Parattah where she would alight and set-up a stall selling apples of various quality to passengers. (Photo, Peter Fell, TGR locomotive engineman)

Roma St, undated (David Jack)

6SB3 with NR52 & NR76
Goods shed still intact & old signals on display in the garden area.
18-03-2000
Greg Riddel

Location (Six Maps)

The Tasman Limited in Winter: view from the cab. Having left Colebrook the train has just crossed Colebrook Road at Salmons Crossing. It is heading along a straight section of track before disappearing into the trees in a small valley where it will round the big 190-degree Coalmine Bend before coming back out to commence a 1:40' climb on the other side. The rails at right angles to the track is a refuge siding for the WG gang motors used by track maintenance crews. (Ross Harris)

8008 & 8041 on 6SB3 just ahead is the 504.000km peg & 11M starting signal which is part of the second loop extension with the first extended loop being part of the existing yard requiring manual operation via a ground frame.
14/12/96 (Greg Riddel)

8008 & 8041 on 6SB3
14/12/96 (Greg Riddel)

6SB3 rolls thru Kempsey whilst the overgrown Kempsey yard is still in use with X117 in the giggle road.
14/12/96 (Greg Riddel)

View from NT-25, the "Grafton XPT" about to cross the Dowling street level crossing, Dungog, on Saturday 2-9-2000. (Graeme Kirkby)

View from NT-25, "Grafton XPT" crossing the viaduct that leads onto the Karuah river steel truss bridge, approaching Stroud Road. Loco 8236 can be seen in the Loop with a local goods train. Saturday, 2-9-2000. (Graeme Kirkby)

Boreadze siding - April and May 2025 (Greg Riddel)