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80s Spark Notes

DATE	#	LOCATION	NOTES

13-7-1987	8503 8501	Campsie	Dn Freight 14:25
14-7-87	8638 8637	Meadowbank	Dn Freight 08:59
	4605 4631	Cowan	Dn Freight 11:20
15-7-1987	8611 8649	Campsie	Up Light Engine 14:15
17-7-1987	4601 4629	Campsie	Dn Wheat 13:58
8-10-1987	DIM 8048	Elcar
	C3854	Elcar
	C3116	Elcar	Blue/White Single Deck
	C3802	Elcar	Blue/White Double Deck
	C3809	Elcar
	C3552	Elcar
	C3994	Elcar	Parcels Van
	T4928	Elcar
	T4777	Elcar
	T4933	Elcar
	CF5002	Elcar	Interurban
8-10-1987	8647-	Chullora Wksps
	8650-	Chullora Wksps
	7100-	Chullora Wksps	On display for open day.
	8635 13 42	Chullora	Special Superfreighter for open day.
	8502-	Delec	Loco depot.
10-10-1987	4628-	Rhodes	No idea what it was on.
26-12-1987	8614-	Sydney Terminal	Bludging around.
	8504 8508	Campbelltown	Dn empty coal 20:03
26-1-1988	8633 8609	Sydney Terminal	Bludging around.
28-2-1988	8640-	Sydney Terminal	Bludging around.
9-3-1988	4633 15 01	Flemington Mkts
26-3-1988	T4557	Sims Mascot
	T4467	Sims Mascot
	C7436	Sims Mascot	Damaged
	C3724	Sims Mascot	Damaged
25-3-1988	8627 8643	Delec	Loco depot.
	4606 07 14	Delec	Loco depot.
27-3-1988	8645 8643	Strathfield	Up Motorail 09:24
	8639 8612	McDonaldtown	Up Indian Pacific
	8604 8620	McDonaldtown	Dn Indian Pacific (8604 Bicentennial)
28-3-1988	4606 ?? 13	Otford	Up Freight 08:40
	8611-	Stanwell Park	Up empty coal 08:55
	4634 4612	Port Kembla
	4630 4627	Cringila	Shunt BHP exchange sidings
	4634 4612	Waterfall

			Compiled: Brad Peadon
			From Personal Sightings

Good old R sets are a thing of the past, as will double decks on the Bankstown line with the pending conversion to Metro.
Marrickville

C7449 during one of a few 80s visits to Elcar (Chullora)

So much has changed in this shot at Brownsville (Illawarra).
V sets no longer roam the Illawarra line, while the Wongawilli coal branch has now closed.
Of the locomotives, 103 is now preserved in Tailem Bend (South Australia), and 102 has been converted to one of them GL class things.