Pilbara Railways Image Collection

The entire photo collection of images scanned from negatives and slides and digital images.


Home Login
Album list Last uploads Last comments Most viewed Top rated My Favourites Search
Most viewed
060618_6212.jpg
8702 Difco USA 060618 6212389 viewsAbydos Siding, originally built by Difco USA for Goldsworthy Mining Ltd in 1967 as a batch of five, prefixed with 870 in BHP service, 8702 side dump waggon loaded with fines for pad capping.
060714_6894.jpg
8500 Tomlinson Steel 060714 6894389 viewsGarden Siding, flat waggon 8500, originally built by Tomlinson Steel WA for Goldsworthy Mining as one of six 55 ton flat waggons built in 1966, and later modified by BHP to increase its capacity.
050625_3661.jpg
050625 3661389 viewsMooka North, BHP's new Tamper 3 track machine a Plasser Australia 09-3X model serial M480 in out on the passing track, view of the tamping heads and mechanism. 25th June 2005.
050625_3817.jpg
050625 3817389 viewsNode 2 at the 38 km on the GML or former Goldsworthy mainline, a Barclay Mowlem track lifter track machine off clear of the running lines. 25th June 2005.
050801_4747.jpg
050801 4747389 viewsFlash Butt yard, BHP's Mainline Tamper 1, a Plasser Australia 09-32 CAT model tamper serial 306 built in 1986. 1st August 2005.
050801_4750.jpg
050801 4750389 viewsFlash Butt yard, Barclay Mowlem track tamper a Fairmont Jackson model 6700 tamper, view of the light buggy. 1st August 2005.
050801_4756.jpg
050801 4756389 viewsFlash Butt yard, a Knox Kershaw KBR 850 ballast regulator lettered for Railway Equipment Leasing And Maintenance RELAM Inc. 1st August 2005.
110411_09997.jpg
0012 Comeng NSW 110411 09997389 viewsNelson Point, empty 116 kL Comeng NSW built tank waggon 0012 from 1972, one of three such tank waggons.
150620_9327.jpg
0220 CNR - QRRS China 150620 9327389 viewsQuarry 8 ballast loading area, CNR-QRRS of China built 99 tonne ballast waggon 0220 waits to be loaded.
080124_1632.jpg
01313 080124 1632389 viewsChapman Siding, side view of slave waggon 1313, the yellow circle around the tare weight 22.6 t indicates the rotary coupler end, built by China Southern or CSR at their Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works in China in 2007. 24th January 2008.
247-22.jpg
247-22389 viewsCape Lambert yard view with Robe River Comeng WA ALCo Schenectady NY model rebuild C636R unit 9426 dragging a loaded 101 waggon rake from the South Yard across Bells Crossing while a brace of four Goninan CM40-8M GE rebuilds wait at the fuel point for a departure with an empty train. Approximate location of photo is here. 22nd May 2002.
251-14.jpg
251-14389 viewsNelson Point, BHP's retired Goninan WA's ALCo C636 to GE C36-7M rebuilds, these were the first time in the world that an ALCo C636 had been rebuilt into an GE C36-7, are lined up near the service shop awaiting their fate. The line is 5510, 5506, 5508, 5512, 5513, 5507, 5509, 5511, and, 5513. They had recently been displaced due to the arrival of the AC6000 units which also took their name plates. Only two units would go on to survive 5507 and 5508. 22nd April 2000.
254-20.jpg
254-20389 viewsBing Siding, an empty train awaits departure time behind 6071 an General Electric built AC6000 model with serial number 51063. The locomotive has not yet been named. Side view. September 2001.
256-09.jpg
256-09389 viewsMaitland Siding on the Cape Lambert to Deepdale railway has a late afternoon empty train with the quad CM40-8M working of 9425, 9410, 9420 and 9414 in the siding waiting for a cross with an opposing loaded train. At the time of this image Siding 3 or Murray Camp was unable to cross ore trains so Siding One - Harding or Siding Two - Maitland were used. May 2002.
190129_4259.jpg
190129 4259389 viewsBinduli, on Mineral Resources Ltd loaded iron ore train service from Koolyanobbing to Esperance #3033 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00326 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-326 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
190129_4322.jpg
190129 4322389 viewsBinduli, on Mineral Resources Ltd loaded iron ore train service from Koolyanobbing to Esperance #3033 with MRL's MHPY type iron ore waggon MHPY 00080 built by CSR Yangtze Co China serial 2014/382-80 in 2014 as a batch of 382 units, these bottom discharge hopper waggons are operated in 'married' pairs.
160710_iPh5S_2813.jpg
160710 iPh5S 2813389 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Colonial Mine, upper level looking across to adits 27 and 28, sleeper pile to the right, track leading away to adits 27 and 28.
121210_IMG_P11781.jpg
121210 IMG P11781389 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, NTAY 6126 fuel tank waggon, built by Indeng Qld 1976 for Shell as an SCA type SCA 277. Recoded to NTAF 277, then 6126. Capacity of 61,300 litres. Peter Donaghy image.
131024_IMG_0659.jpg
131024 IMG 0659389 viewsWest Kalgoorlie, detail image of AZWY 30373 'Sputnik' loco oil and sand waggon. Peter Donaghy image.
160409_IMG_7229.jpg
160409 IMG 7229389 viewsParkeston, Aurizon rail grinder MMY type MMY 034, built in the USA by Loram as RG331 ~2004, imported into Australia by Queensland Rail, now Aurizon, in April 2009, detail picture. Peter Donaghy image.
19220 files on 961 page(s) 711

Set Back to Pilbara Yard / Photo Gallery / Blog / Departure Yard / BHP Road / Fortescue Metals Road / Rio Tinto Road / Roy Hill Road / Comalco Siding
Your IP address is: Website and all images are © 1997-2026 www.pilbararailways.com.au Contact Us
Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional