Pacific National grain train on the Oaklands Branch Feb 2022

A few scenes of a Pacific national grain 7CM6 from Oaklands to Appleton Dock on Saturday February 12th 2022. We catch up with G539 BL30 & BL27 near Tungamah and follow through to Benalla.

[@GTown054]

Great rail video 👍👍😀, excellent camera work. you have my LIKE!!!😎

[@steamfreak]

Thanks!

[@tophawerner7505]

Great audio to go with the awesome shots👍

[@steamfreak]

Thanks!

[@callumbinyon723]

Brilliant thanks Trever! Good news is the Oaklands line has had more work done although no enough. more is being done as we speak now. Have you had a chance to look at it recently?

[@steamfreak]

I was up there a few days ago, there have been some small jobs done, but there are so many places that are lucky to hold a train... In some locations only 1 in 5 sleepers are able to hold gauge...

[@rsinclair6560]

Have you followed the other side back to The Rock? There was also an underground black coal mine at Oaklands back early 20th century.

[@steamfreak]

Yes I have driven along the old line. It's mostly still in place under the weeds! I do recall a company proposing a new coal venture near Oaklands in the last 10 years or so, but nothing came of it.

[@WarwickRaverty]

Thanks for showing the whole grain train at the end. I counted 46 wagons!! I wonder how many tonnes of wheat that is? Where did the train pick up the wheat please?

[@BennyBlack1]

Wagons are about 60 tonnes each I reckon and origin is Oaklands NSW

[@steamfreak]

Ben has the answer!

[@WarwickRaverty]

@@BennyBlack1 Many thanks - saves a lot of B-doubles hammering our roads!

[@BennyBlack1]

@@WarwickRaverty yeh you might think that but the last 2 harvests have been 80% if not more taken up by road instead of rail due to the Low speed restrictions that are on the line (30kmh)

[@jimpikoulis6726]

Oaklands

[@steamfreak]

Not quite. Just Tungamah to Benalla.