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The fresh and vibrant blue and white across the dry countryside of the south is a pleasant change with MAN002, MAN009 and MAN008 charge up from Fish River to the top before dropping into Gunning with 9875 empty Manildra Flour service from Nowra to Bogan Gate.
On Wednesday 30/4/2025, AK82 (ARTC track inspection train) is seen coming to a stop at Islington (Adelaide) with GM22 “Aykay 2” & 4829 “Les Walsh” in charge, this being the first visit of an SSR-owned 48 class to SA.
CM3302 leads BRM001, BRM002 and CM3303 towards Clandulla with CB01 empty SSR/Centennial coal train to Charbon.
Charbon mine closed in August 2015, only a few months after this photo was taken. The workforce and equipment from the mine was relocated to the nearby Airly Colliery near Capertee.
The mine once supplied coal to the nearby Kandos cement works, as well as Wallerawang and Mt Piper power stations. Some coal was also sent by rail to Port Kembla or Newcastle for export.
With the closure of Charbon, the line between Airly Junction and Kandos was mothballed, although it remains available for the occasional heritage train to run on to Kandos and Rylstone.
With loco shuffling completed, RL305, 602, RL301 and RL302 reattached to 9849 empty SSR grain from Inner Harbour to Nevertire, in Browns Siding at Lithgow
