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| DBR
1282 is a surprise visitor to Timaru on 2 Jan 83 with a Caroline
Bay Carnival train from Christchurch. Seen here at Timaru's
station |
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| And
leaving |
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| Three
DJs bring a train into Dunedin just before a sunrise in Apr 1988.
Taken from the Pelichet Bay lighting tower, one of my favourite
haunts which would no doubt get me arrested as a terrorist
now...! |
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| Treble
DJs 3067, 3390 and 3637 head south with a Southerner at Allenton
on a cloudy day in the late 80s |
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| A
pair of DJs lug the Southerner upgrade at Sawyers bay. 1989 |
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| The
same train at the famous Church rd curve |
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A
selection of pics from a J1211 steam excursion tour taken in
Sept 1989. This pic: Bushy
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Leaving Dunedin
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| Resting
at Dunedin Loco |
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| Making
the most of the appalling weather at Merton |
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| Coming
back through Merton |
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| Near
Palmerston |
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| At
Dunedin |
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| Waianakarua |
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| DJ
3188 with a Port Chalmers shunt and a goods with three DXs about to
head north, one cold early morning in June 1989. Your trusty
reporter was
there on his trusty scarfie issue Raleigh 20 to record the
action... |
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| DJs 3050, 3574
and 3482 wait at Palmerston with a ballast train in Jan 1988 |
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| Treble
DJs 3107 3424 3104 head south past Carisbrook during the mixed
up period in April 88 while the Southerner was being transformed
to the new look. |
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| Dunedin
loco in June 1989 |
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| DJ
3194 passes stone train rakes of LAs at Burnside in April 1989 |
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| In
the late 80s, Mondays usually saw a DF (later a DX) added to the northbound
Southerner (train 144). Occasionally, the DF had issues and the
DJs towed it north. Usually the extra loco came off at Oamaru.
Here 3332+3136 lug dead 6110 at Sawyers Bay in Feb 1988 |
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| One
of the last stone trains in 1988 headed by DJs 3390 and 3672 |
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| DJ
3545 with our northbound Southerner waits at Balclutha for a
triple DJ southbound in June 1989 |
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| Southerner
headed by 3551 and 3188 in the old Dunedin yard in 1988. Much of
the right half of this scene is now light industry and a service
station. |
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| Near
Shag point, Ken Devlin brings the carless Poor Dunedin Student
and a couple of other followers to
another neat place. 3580 and 3551 in May 88 |
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| West
Coast DJ 3643 with the southerner near Shag Point in the later
half of 1989. Note the white roofed car van, which showed up for
a few weeks. Mum and Dad's Morry the Morris being put to good
use |
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| I
started taking a few night shots in 1989 with normally a couple
of northbounds and a long southbound each evening available for
stalking. There
were loads of triple DJ night trains but they
were becoming rare in 1989 as the DXs and DCs took over. I wish
I had taken more pics of them! |
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| Here a Northbound waits for the all clear at the small
yard by the station. Train control was in the station and I
spent a few all nighters up there as well back in the friendlier
days of the NZR. |
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| DC
4951 brings the very last stone from Burnside into the Dunedin
yard. July 1989 |
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| Monday
DX 5235 leads 3637 on the Southerner at Pelichet Bay |
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| 5241
and 3156 at the 'big cutting' above Port Chalmers - July 1989 |
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| The
same train heading away |
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| 5241
and 5483 in Dunedin goods yard |
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| The
big cutting again in late 1989 |
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| DX
5379 airbourne in the loco depot - one night in Sept 1989 |
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| 5391
and 3159 on another Monday Southerner July 1989. This is a
crappy pic, included purely for the jigger collection visible
over the back! |
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| At
Burkes, 5454 and 3188 with yet another Monday Southerner in June
1989 |
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| Mondays
were good days! 5454 3188 on the Merton bridge in late 1989 |
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| The
same train near Warrington |
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| Night
shots were always a bit of a gamble, but this one turned out
pretty well - 5454 and 5477 taken from the Anzac Ave bridge in
June 1989 with the varsity in the background |
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| A
favourite Ken Devlin location in April 89 |
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| 6104 3551 3672
at Pelichet Bay |
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| Same
train at Merton - 1988 |
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| Another
hair raising lighting tower shot with flying tomato 6029, 3545
and 3580 April 1988 |
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| 6029
again, with 3551 and 3021 with the roof of DG2445, which was
being dismantled at Pelichet Bay, providing the mandatory
elevation. April 1988 |
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| My
favourite DF, 6064, wheels a Southerner North in 1989 |
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| DF
6070 and DJ 3171 with a northbound near Anzac Ave one night in
1988 |
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| DFs
6070+6058 at the coal merchant near the Anzac Ave Bridge - 1989 |
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| 6104
and 2 DJs near Evansdale with one of the newly refurbished
Southerners in 1988 |
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| A
southbound led by 6104 and a DJ in 1988. The main yard was
constrained by a road crossing between it and the station yard,
so southbounds were often strung out up the embankment and
sometimes baylond the Andersons Bay Rd bridge. |
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| Wow,
sun in Dunedin. 6133 3326 3211 April 88 |
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| The
first DC in Dunedin was bought down on this train for a Hillside
open day. 6156 3672 3038 4853 apr 1988. The train was so late
arriving that it never made it to Hillside and returned north
the next day. |
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| 6156
heads another Monday 1988 Southerner |
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| 6162 3194
3021 from up the tower |
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| 6202 3614 3551
at Ravensbourne |
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| One
wet early Sunday morning in April 1988, DFs 6202 and 6185
prepare to head north. |
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| One
of my favourite shots of the transition Southerners at the big
cutting, Feb 1988 |
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| Another
favourite shot from that location with 6012 3620 3580. This shot
featured in the 1988 Salmond Hall magazine with me flying over
it on my bike! |
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| As
did this one. Ken Devlin and I walked up to the portal
here, catching 6070 3676 3286 on the northbound train on our way
there. This must have been a period where the Southerners were
the only chaseable day trans.
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| Near
Caversham, triple DJs 3136 3424 3194 pass by in Apr 1988 |
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| DJ
3292 crosses the Bushey Bridge in Sept 1989 while we wait for
the J1211 train |
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| Followed
by the Southbound. The Southereners were tmetabled to cross at
Goodwood from memory. |
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| The
April 1989 Silver Fern Tour at Blanket Bay |
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| And
near Waianakarua? |
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| Merton |
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Port
Chalmers
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| Pukeraki
(are we sick of the stainless steel tube yet?) |
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| Last
one for now near Warrington |
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| J1211
at Bushey (in the SUN!!!) |
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| A
pair of DXs up the embankment about to head south. From memory
this train was 156 4 wheel equivs long |
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| Another
night triple with 4853 5327 4847 in June 1989 |
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| The
'oil rig' special train enters Dunedin Yard behind 6161
and 6041 in April 1988 |
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| 20
June 1989... snow! Amongst snowballs and people skiing n the
streets, DC 4939, DX5270 and dead DJ3545 get ready to head
south. The driver gave me a ride from the depot, back to the
station and up to here. God bless the man. |
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| 3545
and 5270 at the depot about half an hour prior |
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| Ken
Devlin and I went for a wee walk to catch an OETT train with
3499 and 3326 at Wingatui, Sept 1988 |
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| A
pair of DEs at the end of their lives in Invercargill in 89 |
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DJs 3499 and 3188
cross the Waitaki in May 88
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| Near
St Andrews, DF 6070 and DJs 3107 and 3418. Occasionally the DF
was added on Saturdays and didn't get off at Oamaru |
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| DSC
2693 shuffles wagons around of DF 6191s train 147 at Timaru, May
1988 |
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| One
of almost zero pics of the EOs in service - Our family used to
go to the Coast regularly to visit Mum's rellies, but the EOs
always heard us coming and hid. 1983 |
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| 5235 5270 4876
arrive at Oamaru in June 1989 |
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5270
heads the Southerner across the Humber St overbridge in Oamaru
in May 1989
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| May
1989 |
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| J1211
crosses Humber st, Sept 1989 |
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| 6006
and 6104 leaving Picton in Jan 1988 |
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| Treble
DFs on the Picton train at Elevation in Jan 1988. Funnily enough
it later turned out that Ken Devlin was up that way too - that
was his green car at left. |
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| Terminally
ill DE 1366 at Picton after an altercation with an LA in
Dunedin. Jan 1988 |
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| Near
Studholme, all blue DJ 3096 with the Southerner in Dec 1987 |
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| In
Jan 1988 the same loco s in charge of a Southbound waiting at St
Andrews for DX 5517 |
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| DF
6277 approaches Timaru with a Northbound. |
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