Random Ticket Guff!

Howdee,
Below are a random selection of tickets from the 'New South Wales' western line collected during the 80s. All may be of lots, little, or bleeding interest at all.

Cheers
Brad

Cadney Park Revisited!

It has been some time since we first looked at the 1984 train orders from Cadney Park over in South Australian.
They were indeed popular and I have been planning to show more ever since.
Well work finished early today and the torrential rain has cancelled any need to take number 1 son to footy training, so what better way to spend the afternoon than with a few rums and rambling on with bollocks around the internet.
With this in mind, I hope you like the latest Cadney Park selection.
No doubt we will be revisiting here yet again in the future.

SMR Tickets

G'day,
The collection of tickets shown here are sadly not from my collection (although I am will to accept give aways :-) ) but have been shared by others who thought you may be interested.

All are from the 'South Maitland Railway', which, by now, you would be coming to realise I have a fetish for.

No idea about what dates they were issued, but perhaps some knowledgeable ticket gunzel will be able to enlighten us.

Random Tickets!

No real theme, just a few items from the the collection that have been dredged up in recent days.
Used to get a Dayrover every weekend. There was many differing designs over the years, however, as yet, I have been unable to locate a strange wide cardboard variety I once got in Newcastle.

CITYHOPPER 1990

Before posting this I had a quick look at the Cityrail website to see if these things are still available.
Apparently they have passed the passage of time, though I am unsure if the design remains the same. Anyone know?

Brad

Ampol Branch - East Botany

Welcome to 2008!

The Ampol branch in East Botany left the Port Botany line just east of the Page Street overbridge and opposite Kelloggs.
It was not a very long branch and was only ever used to serve the fuel terminal at its end. At either end of the line it crossed a street, Baker and Ocean, in between which was a large gelatin company from where Gelco yard gained its name.
In later years this area became quite bushy and was a favoured spot for local Botany railfans, especially in the late 80s and early 90s when it became an obsession with its expected closure.
All shunting was carried out by pushing the fuel tankers into the terminal. There were no run around facilities provided.
Trains would normally work up from Botany yard to the junction, then with the shunter protecting both crossings the train would be called across by radio. On completion the train would return to the junction where it would either head straight out to other destinations or pushed back to Botany goods yard again.
The line closed in the mid 90s after a merging of Caltex and Ampol saw the terminal closed. This came as a bit of a shock as the whole rail section of the terminal was rebuilt just a couple of years prior.
Today the only rails existing are those in the two level crossings. The mainline has been straight railed, while the section between the two crossings has been variously landscaped, covered in a tennis court and also a car park. Only ballast survives in the actual terminal.
No easy access to walking the formation exists, though it can mostly be seen from both crossings.

Photos: 4916 arrives at the Ampol terminal on the afternoon of 1st June 1991. Used card from a fuel tanker headed to Narrabri in the states north.

Cadney Park (South Australia) Train Orders!

Howdee,

I have said in earlier blog entries that you can find souveniers in the strangest of places.

In what must be the most amazing examples are the extracts here are from a 1984 train order book originally in Cadney Park (South Australia). Cadney Park is on the current line to Darwin, although Alice Springs was the termination point in these days.

Given the location, you could imagine the surprise of finding it on the long removed Murraymore Siding in Mascot (New South Wales).

It is a full book and more extracts can be put up if the interest is there.

Brad

Cobar - Cockle Creek!

Random Tid-Bits!

Tickets with some now none existent stations and a strange lineside find at Blackalls Park, that being a fire extinguisher card from loco 4708 then with her first owner.