Written By: Thomas McIntosh
Photos By: Dean Jones, Thomas Bulic and Declan Goodsell
Page Last Updated: 23/6/20
QUBE Logistics operates an Ore train between Port Kembla in the Illawarra and Blayney in the West as 8964N and 9865N. The motive power from this train varies quite wide. Anything from 1100s and CMs to 80s and 442s. The wagons used on this train are CFCLA's 40 foot CQKY and CQZY container wagons, with butterboxes loaded ontop with ore.
It typically runs from Port Kembla to Blayney every two days, typically leaving in the evening as #9865N. It cuts through the centre of Wollongong, through the Illawarra into the south of Sydney before heading along the metro goods line into Enfield where it heads onto the Blue Mountains line from there. Once they are out past Lithgow they snake through the mountains once more before reaching Blayney, as the train loads the locomotives will run light engine to Orange where they refuel for the trip back to Port Kembla.
It typically runs from Port Kembla to Blayney every two days, typically leaving in the evening as #9865N. It cuts through the centre of Wollongong, through the Illawarra into the south of Sydney before heading along the metro goods line into Enfield where it heads onto the Blue Mountains line from there. Once they are out past Lithgow they snake through the mountains once more before reaching Blayney, as the train loads the locomotives will run light engine to Orange where they refuel for the trip back to Port Kembla.
A map showing the typical route across NSW.