Written By: Thomas Bulic
Photo By: Dean Jones and Thomas Bulic
Page Last Updated: 10/7/20
SSR operates a return container service to Kelso 4 times a week. The train carries a variety of items such as grain, rice & logs that have been trucked from other parts of the state. Where it is transferred into containers at the Grainforce siding in Kelso (Just east of Bathurst) bound for Port Botany. The train runs loaded from Bathurst and empty on the return journey.
The train is made up of the CRL Skeletal wagons BQAY (40 Foot), BQBY (40 Foot) & BQFY (60 Foot). SSR’s Kelso train is made up of a large variety of locomotives, seeing many eclectic lashups of aging locomotives.
The train run as the following:
1845/1877 Port Botany-Kelso
8146/8178 Kelso-Port Botany
The train is made up of the CRL Skeletal wagons BQAY (40 Foot), BQBY (40 Foot) & BQFY (60 Foot). SSR’s Kelso train is made up of a large variety of locomotives, seeing many eclectic lashups of aging locomotives.
The train run as the following:
1845/1877 Port Botany-Kelso
8146/8178 Kelso-Port Botany
RL304-C504-C506 with #1845 at Sodwalls. (4/8/19)
Photo By: Thomas Bulic |
C508-4532-442s1-48s35-VL353 with #8146. (4/7/20)
Photo By: Dean Jones |
A map showing the typical route across NSW.
Photos of the Kelso Grainforce Train
C508-VL353 with #8146 at Locksley. (21/3/20)
Photo By: Thomas Bulic |
G513-BRM002-C507 with #8146 at Locksley. (22/11/16)
Photo By: Dean Jones |
S302-VL354-VL353 with #1845 near Mount Victoria. (29/4/16)
Photo By: Dean Jones |
BRM001-BRM002 with #1845 at Tarana Quarry. (5/5/19)
Photo By: Dean Jones |