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Bwana
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 Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 1:06 pm Post subject: Fisher's Ghost specials (and Perth EMUs) |
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With the bwanamobile in for a service on Monday I put my faith in Cityrail to take me gunzelling between Liverpool and Campbelltown. Most of the resulting pics are at best boring, and with "diffused lighting" (read "cloudy as buggerry, so everything just looks grey"). Here's a few to give you a feel for the day though:
Now I don't give a shit about EMUs, and certainly not interstate EMUs, but Vince tells me these are on a delivery run from Brisbane to Perth. I'll show you how much interest I have in WA rail, I thought they had broad guage over there...
In multi
Miss Piggy coasts into Casula
With a nanny at the back
"Reckon you could spare a bit for the tender?" - a Tahmoor coalie, diverted due to trackwork on the Unanderra-Moss Vale line, lines up with 3642 in Campbelltown yard
With coalies out of the way, 3642 comes into the platform for another run
Now I'm not sure how well NSWRTM is represented here, if at all, but if anyone from there is here, can you explain to me what the point was in having a train that was too long to fit on Campbelltown platform 2 (except for emptying out the last trip, the only platform used), so that a couple of cars were not used all day, and also the train was too long to fit at Liverpool, meaning it had to wait for a road north, then move about 50m north, before it could be switched onto the down line (also, I assume, blocking the up while waiting for the road north too). Maybe they expected better crowds than they got, but geez, the fact that most trips weren't even a quarter full on pre-bookings should have been a hint.
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I am quietly confident that the EMU's on their way to the West will end up on 3'6" bogies with external disc brakes. The shiny yellow SG just looks wrong.
Great pix of the rest.
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TheLoadedDog
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| 882seu4me wrote: |
| The shiny yellow SG just looks wrong. |
But apart from that, the Perth EMUs barrelling through Livo looked at home? 
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882seu4me
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| TheLoadedDog wrote: |
| 882seu4me wrote: |
| The shiny yellow SG just looks wrong. |
But apart from that, the Perth EMUs barrelling through Livo looked at home? |
Well, er..no. I got quite a surprise as the page loaded. Seeing a Transperth EMU so far from home. My first thought was that the electrification must have been a big job. I mean Lithgow to Armadale.
Nachohat has more pics for those that are interested. See http://perthtrains.nachohat.org/image/4756/
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Bwana
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| Bwana wrote: |
| I thought they had broad guage over there... |
| 882seu4me wrote: |
| I am quietly confident that the EMU's on their way to the West will end up on 3'6" bogies with external disc brakes. The shiny yellow SG just looks wrong. |
Broad, narrow, what's the difference?  I knew it wasn't standard...
Minor correction, the EMUs are at Ingleburn. And of course they looked out of place on the main south - where's the graffiti?
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