SPOTLIGHT: WINGELLO RAILWAY STATION

Opened: 1871 (as a siding)

1882: Platform added and named Wingello.

Today the station remains in use, being served by irregular daily services too and from Goulburn.

Timetable Information.

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 Classic old station sign still in existence.

Photo: Brad Peadon

Up Canberra Exploder passes through a moist Wingello station.

Photo: Brad Peadon

Stephen 'KAK' Karas partaking in the annual combined 'Semi-Retired Foamer' and 'S*M*U*T' Christmas party at Wingello station.

Photo: Brad Peadon

Wingello station looking north.

Photo: Brad Peadon

The last remaining siding just north of the station.

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More attendees partaking in the annual combined 'Semi-Retired Foamer' and 'S*M*U*T' Christmas party at Wingello station.

Photos: Brad Peadon

8144 8136 on a down limestone run at Wingello.

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QBX004 QBX002 on a down 1311 containers approaching Wingello station.

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8252 8245 on a up limestone at Wingello.

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Pays to always keep your eyes on the competition.  ;-)

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This time it was a Canberra bound Exploder approaching the station.

Photo: Brad Peadon

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Older Photos

The common theme at Wingello sure seems to be cold/wet days.

Photo: Brad Peadon

Another of those Canberra bound Exploders, though I particularly like this shot.

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Beautiful station - Miserable weather.

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Yeah, at this stage we thought it may be time to move on.

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Thank you:

Brad Coulter & Bradly Coulter Jnr 

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Further Reading 

Railfan Galleries: Wingello Station Facebook Group

NSW Railways - Past and Present

SRF/SMUT Wingello Christmas Party Weekend.

Wingello Station - Wikipedia

Semi-Retired Foamer Travel & Aviation Blog.

Official Home Of 'Brad N Virls'.

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This posting was first put together back in 2011.
Somehow it managed to go into the draft section, never to see light of day (well, light of computer screen).
There are a number of other posts that have suffered the similarly. All have since been brought forth and placed out there for viewing.
This one I decided to bring forward eight years for your belated enjoyment. 


The XPT

The XPT has been one of those trains that I have never purposely gone out of my way to get.

However, during ones career as a foamer these less than riveting examples of rollingstock do seem to pop up with endless regularity and, while not what I spent six hours driving to see, they do fill in the gaps between the real stuff.

Of course, as with anything, as time progresses these photos become more and more historically important.

So while I doubt you will be popping your suspenders with excitement, I hope you will enjoy these few examples of passing XPTs

Meeting at Wauchope.

XPT bursts out of the tunnel above Picton.


XPT literally screaming through Gerogery back when it stoped at Albury.

Wallendbean

Menangle Park station looking a little the worse for wear.

Fassifern

Cootamundra

Delec Wheel Lathe

Heading north out of Paterson.

And finally we have a southbound XPT negotiating the curves out of Stroud Road.

Another random selection of photos taken over the years.

Display at Maroubra Junction by the 'Eastern Suburbs Light Rail Association'.

This former group were pushing for a light rail system serving Randwick, Coogee and Maroubra, something that people still dream of to this day.

Oops, what happened there. Daven 'Woodrow' Walters aims to get a better shot.



Tanker at Port Augusta.

Classic Qantas jumbo departing Sydney Airport.

All of these have since been retired.

Rodney Nugent

Botany Yard

A lesser known plane fact is their occasional getting of worms.

Not unlike dogs, one of the easiest ways to tell is when they scrape their butts along the tarmac. A weeks treatment usually solves the problem - see your vet.

GY at Ballarat.

Gunning Station 1993

Coal hopper whoosie near Glenlee!

Glenalta station back in broad gauge days.

Bitumen wagon at Sandown.

British Airways

Ariah Park station on the Cootamundra to Griffith branch.

VALE ANSETT

Albury signalbox back in the days before the yard was raped and pillaged.

Air New Zealand at Sydney Airport.

Ballarat

Join us again soon, for another delectable helping of random piccies from the last few decades.