Australian Railway History Magazine

L Class locomotives also operated suburban goods trains beyond their usual Traralgon Line rosters. Author Chris Banger opens a photo in more ways than one when he takes a look at a photo of L 1169 in the suburb of Fairfield while working a rake of empty wagons used for paper pulp near the mainline junction of the 1.125 kilometre-long Australian Paper Manufacturers (APM) Siding at Fairfield. We look at the history of the siding and history behind the traffic.
Outside of the western Riverina of New South Wales there probably aren’t many who have heard of Carrathool, a village of around 70 inhabitants, three kilometres north of the Murrumbidgee River on the former South West (Junee–Hay) railway, 72.3 miles (116.3km) west of Narrandera1 and 34.7 miles (55.8km) east of Hay. Neville Pollard studies the railway’s role in the rise and fall of Carrathool. Of significance is competition between railway and river for wool traffic and opening of the Griffith–Hillston Line for wheat traffic.
The ARHS Archives have so much amazing things inside but we have recently found an interesting article in amongst CC Singletons papers left to the society about 3801s on its trail trip to Thirroul and return in 1943. It is an interesting account that is not to be missed as so many of CC Singletons accounts, articles and reports are when looking back at those priceless ARHS Bulletin issues.

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