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Beware, you are approaching another selection of photography showcasing the steelworks at Port Kembla (NSW, Australia).
It has been a particular favourite location of mine over the decades, and I've aimed to try to get many photos of not only the locomotives, but the rollingstock and infrastructure as well.
Prepare for the approaching tsunami of photographs from the 80s till today.
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D44 transferring internal steel wagons through the Cringila exchange sidings.
Unit now scrapped.
Photo: Brad Peadon
D36 shunting the Cringila exchange sidings.
Also now scrapped.
Photo: Brad Peadon
D36 and D44 passing each other at Cringila as they potter around the steelworks.
Photo: Brad Peadon
Above and below.
D40 had just been painted in the new yellow Bluescope Steel livery.
Today she is the last of here type to exist, and has been sitting out of use (awaiting repairs) for some time now. With new (well second hand) locomotives about to be introduced, it is doubtful those repairs will now happen and we are hoping it will see preservation.
Photos: Brad Peadon
The big guy D34 shunting limestone hoppers at Cringila.
Locomotive is now preserved at the 'State Mine Railway' in Lithgow.
Photo: Brad Peadon
Now scrapped D38 also in the then new Bluescope yellow livery.
Photo: Brad Peadon
D7 D20 - 4901 on a special tour up to the Kemira coal loader is seen passing through Mount Kembla.
D7 is privately preserved in Canberra, D20 with the State Mine Railway, while 4901 has been scrapped.
Photo: Carl Millington
Brad Peadon Collection
D44 was one of the last two units, the other D43, to wear the former red livery. By now it had been modified to carry the new Bluescope Steel logos.
Both D43 and D44 would go on to be scrapped in the red livery, never seeing the attractive BHP blue.
Cringila yard.
Photo: Brad Peadon
D49 (formerly Goldsworthy A8) and D47 (formerly Goldsworthy A5) wait at Wongawilli Junction with a load of coal from the Elouera Colliery branch.
Both are now scrapped.
Photo: Brad Peadon
D47 again, now on an empty coal rake headed up the Kemira line.
Photo: Brad Peadon
D43 shunting the Welded Products siding at Unanderra.
Photo: Brad Peadon
D49 D47 up Elouera coal at West Dapto.
Photo: Brad Peadon
D36 at Cringila again, as it likely was a million times before scrapping.
Photo: Brad Peadon
D38 Light engine passing through Cringila.
Photo: Brad Peadon
8115 waits at Brownsville Junction with a coalie from Elouera. The second and third hoppers were a couple of the special livery hoppers that existed.
Photo: Brad Peadon
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The National Railway Equipment PB class (genset) now represent the main type of locomotives at the steelworks, having seen the demise of all remaining English Electrics other than D27 and D40.
They will soon be assisted by four second hand Victorian H class which are in the process of being transferred there.
Above and below is PB3.
Photos: Brad Peadon
An extract from the logbook of now scrapped D43.
Photo: Brad Peadon
Above and below.
The round sided (143-180) BXLA coal hoppers.
Today the entire fleet is believed scrapped (as are the older square sided (1-142) variation.
Photos: Brad Peadon
Above and below
Torpedos during transfers through Cringila, a sight that does not seem anywhere near as common as it once seemed to be. Maybe I'm just picking bad days to visit.
Photo: Brad Peadon
Internal wagon LR-119.
Photo: Brad Peadon
Internal wagons CR-34 and CR67 with a load of steel coils at Spring Hill.
Photo: Brad Peadon
Bushells Hill tunnel on the Kemira Valley line.
Photo: Brad Peadon
Former line to Nebo Colliery, today being a bike/walking track.
Photo: Brad Peadon
Photo: Brad Peadon
Battery locomotive #78 at Nebo Colliery.
Photo: Brad Peadon
Photo: Brad Peadon
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