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The closest 'main south' station to Canberra is Yass. Located in NSW, Yass has a station known as 'Yass Junction' on the main line between Melbourne and Sydney. I've found that on a saturday morning between 6am and 10:30am you'll see up to 4 standard services with a random sprinkling of special events in between. Shown below are the services that I've spotted and managed to photograph well.

Updates

• 23rd October 2008: Initial Upload.
• 26th October 2008: Wasn't much action with a track crew possessing the station and block either side. This meant the 8:30am steel service came at 10am with the 10:30am container service straight after.
• 16th/17th December 2008: Spent the night in Yass Junction Signal Box and got too see a whole lot of different services come through... Highlights were PN using 2x81s and 3x48s on ARGs old grain service (woke me up at 5:21am... no time to photograph) and then a southbound freighter with both a Southern Spirit NR84 and a Ghan NR together. I then proceeded to mee the XPT in Gunning and return via Goulburn... Unfortunately there were trackworks which cancelled a CityRail service. I didn't hang around long enough to see the evening freight movements. Will definitely be doing this again.

Currently 105 photos.

Added: 23 October 2008

Added: 26 October 2008

Added: 17 December 2008

Early Afternoon	Yass junction in the Afternoon	3NY3 or 2BM4
3NY3 or 2BM4, Happy drivers	3NY3 or 2BM4	3NY3 or 2BM4
NR Up Close	A southbound fertiliser train caught me off guard at around 7:15pm	Northbound Signals, High Exposure
Northbound Signals, Less Exposure	Northbound Signals... Waiting for that freighter	Yass Junction at night
Pedestrian Overbridge	Yass Junction Signal Box at night	Northbound Grain (3982?)
Northbound Grain (3982?)	Northbound Grain (3982?)	Northbound Grain (or is this 3982?)
Northbound Grain (or is this 3982?)	Northbound Grain (or is this 3982?)	First Southbound Freigher (4SP5?)
First Southbound Freigher (4SP5?)	First Southbound Freigher (4SP5?)	Yass Junction Signal Box
Yass Junction Yard Diagram	Northbound Freight (2XW4?)	Northbound Freight (2XW4?)
NR109 in the lead (2XW4?)	NR109 Close Up	NR109 Speeding through
NR109 on Steel service	The next southbound, possibly 4WP2?	Southbound freighter
Southern Spirit (and The Ghan NR) on Southbound Freigher	Southern Spirit on Southbound Freigher	NR73 on Northbound 1PS6
XPT arrives at Gunning Station	XPT arrives at Gunning Station	XPT pauses at Gunning Station
XPT pauses at Gunning Station	XPT leaves Gunning Station	XPT leaves Gunning Station
XPT leaves Gunning Station	4473 stabled at Goulburn