Yass Junction Diary « modelrail.otenko

Yass Junction Diary

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This page is no longer updated regularly as I now live over 500km from Yass

Yass Junction Railway Station is the only remaining station serving the town of Yass in New South Wales, Australia. It lies on the Main Southern Line between Sydney and Albury. The station opened on 3 July 1876 as Yass but changed to its current name on 20 April 1892. The station is not in the town itself but is located approximately 4 kilometres away near the Hume Highway.

It is the closest 'Main Southern Line' railway station to Canberra. Due to this, it's my station of choice for checking out the traffic on the line. This includes passenger trains from Sydney to Melbourne and freight in every other direction. Every so often there is also a shutdown on the route over the Blue Mountains and Yass therefore becomes part of the line from Perth to Sydney.

Most of my expeditions to this station occur on a Saturday morning as you'll find a good selection of traffic at frequent intervals; dependent on how well the trains are running to the timetable. Sometimes, due to dead engines or special services, there will also be trains layed over in the Yass Junction passing lane (which happens to be the opposite side of the mainline to which whatever priority train is running on.)

External Resources

Yass Junction photo galleries

Old shots from Yass Junction contains everything prior to getting organised and building this page/site
Yass Junction (22nd Aug 2009)
Yass Junction (29th Aug 2009)
Yass Junction (12th Sep 2009)
Yass Junction (17th Oct 2009)
Yass Junction (24th Oct 2009)
Yass Junction (7th Nov 2009)
Yass Junction (14th Nov 2009)
Yass Junction (18th Sep 2010)
The END

Unscheduled Trains...

LVR 5917 en-route to Sydney

The Indian Pacific (twice)

Sleeper Trains

AK Cars

ARHS ACT Tour from Melbourne

Rail Grinder

Southbound Steel wrong-road

QR Rail Grinder

ELs at Yass

Sightings

Below is a list of sightings that I've noted from my visits to the Junction. I initially started recording only times, but that soon lead to recording engine numbers as well. It's actually quite a challenge to take photos and also remember/record the details. You'll notice that not all numbers are there, if it's only two digits/numbers then that'll be the model of the locomotive and not the build number (i.e. 8101,81 is 8101 and another 81 class, not 8181.)

Time	6/6/9	22/8/9	29/8/9	12/9/9	17/10/9	24/10/9	7/11/9	14/11/9
0530						0556 Grain 8132, 8140, 8169 SOUTH
0600	0600 Grain SOUTH	0610 Grain SOUTH		0603 Grain 8104, 81 SOUTH	0604 Grain 8136, 8175, 8146 SOUTH		0606 Grain 8169, 8137, 8176 SOUTH
0630	0648 Container SOUTH	0648 Container NR40, NR SOUTH	0641 Grain 8182, L270 NORTH		0634 Container NR23, AN3, NR3 NORTH
0700	0721 Container QR LDP005 SOUTH		0701 Grain 8150, 8155 NORTH		0724 Container NR6, NR30, NR8 SOUTH
0730		0750 Grain 8145, 8160 NORTH	0742 Container NR62, NR65 SOUTH 0757 Grain 8158, 8174 SOUTH			0742 Grain EL55, EL60, EL54 NORTH	0751 Container NR90 ,NR94 SOUTH	0732 Grain 8163, 8101, 8150 SOUTH
0800		0827 Steel NR118, NR, NR NORTH	0809 Indian Pacific NR28 NORTH				0808 Container NR86, NR119, NR41 SOUTH 0824 Steel NR69, NR121 SOUTH
0830	0831 Grain NORTH 0839 Steel NORTH 0841 Steel SOUTH 0855 Grain NORTH				0833 Steel NR111, NR10, NR68 SOUTH		0852 Steel NR81, NR113, NR5 SOUTH
0900			0917 AK Cars 4833, 46 NORTH					0902 Container NR17, NR117, NR62 SOUTH
0930	0938 Steel SOUTH			0936 Container SOUTH		0959 Steel NR72, AN, NR85 SOUTH		0958 Steel NR70, NR5, AN5 SOUTH
1000			1020 Steel NR89, NR71 SOUTH	1027 Container NR47, NR117, NR NORTH
1030		1053 Container NORTH	1031 Container NR10, NR118, NR31 NORTH 1046 Container NR66, NR118, NR102 NORTH	1058 Steel NR12, NR84 NORTH		1058 Container NR14, NR, NR79 NORTH	1058 Griffith XPL SOUTH
1100	1105 Griffith XPL SOUTH	1100 Container SOUTH	1101 Griffith XPL SOUTH				1125 Melbourne XPT SOUTH
1130				1140 Steel NR21, DL40 SOUTH 1150 Melbourne XPT SOUTH	1137 Melbourne XPT SOUTH 1144 Container NR13, NR78 NORTH			1154 Melbourne XPT SOUTH
1200			1200 Melbourne XPT SOUTH 1224 Steel NR70, NR96 NORTH		1205 Steel NR73, NR66, NR106 NORTH	1219 Melbourne XPT SOUTH 1220 Steel NR87, AN5, NR119 NORTH	1226 Container NR84, NR91, NR47 NORTH
1230
1300								1328 Steel NR52, NR45 NORTH
1330
1400
1430			1443 Grain 8152, L251 SOUTH		1432 Oiler X52, X50 NORTH
1500
1530
1600			1603 Sydney XPT NORTH		1605 QR Rail Grinder NORTH 1619 Steel NR1, NR18 SOUTH
1630					1630 Sydney XPT NORTH
1700			1728 Container NR22, NR8, NR30 NORTH
1730

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Edgardo M.
January 7th, 2010 - 16:44

Hello,
I have surfed through your page and deciced to leave a short note of admiration for it. I like it a lot, specially the photos, they are really nice. I have some curiosity and wanted to ask you if you were a Japanese descendant? Did you travel alone in Japan, or with other train enthusiasts? I found this page by chance though, I was searching for the MicroAce interior lights information. I am a new in this hobby and have built a decent collection of Japanese trains. Although I don’t have a huge space to run my trains, I enjoy collecting them… and I always feel happy when people like you have such as nice layouts. By the way I live in Kurashiki, prefecture of Okayama.

Good luck

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- stevenh
  January 8th, 2010 - 15:22
  
  Thanks for the comments!
  I am not a Japanese descendant at all. I studied the language for 2 years at university, but have only ever been over on holidays. I haven’t ever been over with friend who like trains either, so I usually go off on trips by myself or with friends who just want to travel Japan.
  I wish you all the best with your collection and hobby, you’re in an awesome country with an awesome train network… so make the most of it!
  
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