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11/05/2026

Thought we better jump on the Candy XPT bandwagon

XP2009 along with XP2006 thunder through Perthville with WT28 from Dubbo to Sydney

11/5/26
📸 by Josh

09/05/2026

On Saturday the 9th of May 2026, SSR EMD units C506,C505,4908,BRM002 and C502 roar upgrade towards Raglan with Grainforce Logistics/Manildra mills combined train 8178 from Kelso to Port Botany

08/05/2026

On the morning of May 5th 2026, UGL GE C44ACI hired engines in the form of CF4412 (Black Caviar) and CF4411 (Revenue) glide along the “Up Main” at east Maitland with empty Bluescope steel train 2BW7 from Acacia Ridge to Port Kembla.

📸’s by Josh

19/03/2026

On the morning of March 19th 2026, Pacific National EMD JT26C-2SS in the form of 8105 is seen sitting under the gantry crane of VAE’s rail fabrication centre in Bathurst, after bringing up 8 empty NDRF wagons from Sydney. The loco will sit in Bathurst for the majority of the day while the team at VAE load up the wagons with Sydney Trains’ order of rail.

📸 by Josh

05/03/2026

During the closing days of February 2026, One Rail Australia made a rare appearance on the NSW Main Western Railway, using two of its XRN class locomotives to operate a ballast train between Newcastle and Maryvale/ Geurie.

The XRNs are nowadays usually captive to Hunter Valley coal workings, having not run on the Great Western since the Trangie containerised cotton train (1881/ 8182) ceased operations in 2018. One Rail Aus. themselves have not operated at all in this region since 2021, when 2202 and a GWU class operated a railset to/from Bathurst, photos of which were taken by Josh and posted here at the time.

In this shots at Perthville on 20/02 and 23/02, XRN010 and XRN018 are at work on the ballast train, which consisted of ten Brimble Rail ballast wagons and, on 20/02, a ballast cleaner, itself debuting on the GWR.

Photos and prose by Duck

23/02/2026

On Monday the 23rd of February, SRS train 8192 with CM3313,CF4434 and CF4435 crawl through Lloyds road in south bathurst after waiting down the line at signal BT56 to wait for SSR to shunt and depart with their railset.

The crew didn’t make it very far before being shafted in the loop at Bathurst to wait for the WT28 XPT service.

8192 is now the new run of the AFF (Australian Food and Fibre) train from Warren/Auscott to Enfield, this train was previously in the hands of QUBE but has since been taken over by Sydney Rail services.

📸 by Josh

08/02/2026

On January 1st 2026, Pacific National EMD JT26C-2SS loco 8127 leads service 1825 through Marangaroo with 23 NPHH 100t cement wagons bound for Blayney for storage. With the end of the Boral contract 100’s of wagons have been scattered across NSW for both Temporary and Long term storage.

The train is then seen passing through Rydal.

Almost resembles the days of the Kandos Cement train..

📸’s by Josh

20/01/2026

On Monday 19/01/2026 I had the high honours of being rostered for an 0200 sign on to run D881 to Goobang Junction to attach to 2837 wagon transfer to Tullamore, it was a fantastic day, once at Tullamore the NPEF wagons were shunted off into the siding road for long term stow and the last of the wagons were NHFF ex coal wagons, these were then ran to Gobodery to long term stow in the loop there and the little critters and I started the crawl home. Facebook won’t allow me to put photos and videos on this post so I will be adding a couple of videos I took in the comments section.

Just would like to add a special note for all that went in pursuit of this transfer, it was good to see you all being sensible on the roads and staying safe trackside, well done all and I can’t wait to see all the wonderful photos and videos from you all
Feel free to send photos of me or my driver to Nic English

Post by Nic English

16/01/2026

On Friday January 16th 2026, SSR ALCO DL531’s in the form of 4829 and 4815 are seen working 8M41 railset from Rydal to Orange. At Orange the train will stable overnight where it will then commence rail drop possessions between Orange and Bathurst on Saturday the 17th.

Photos by Josh
Locations are as follows:

Locksley
Wambool
Perthville
Tumulla
Gresham
Newbridge

28/12/2025

On Monday the 22nd of December 2025, Pacific National locomotives TT102, TT107 and 9025 lead loaded service MT932 (Unit 17) through Tarro enroute to PWCS Koorangang from Mount Thorley with another 91 wagons of coal for export.

9025 is one of three remaining 90 classes still in service in the Hunter Valley, it won’t be long until it’s eventual retirement and storage in werris creek along with its classmates.

📸 by Josh

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