From: Brian Webber
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 9:31 AM
Cc: Hallam, Greg ; Farlow, Caitlin ; Campbell, Dennis ; Elsol, John ; David Langley ; Bruce McLean ; jgof@datafast.net.au ; Graeme Cleak ; Bob Wilson ; Weston Langford ; John Phillips ; John Thompson ; liamdavies@optusnet.com.au ; milantram1859@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Monday Morning Photo. 25/04/2011.
Gents
My credentials are that I worked for a Bank in Bundaberg in 1962/63 and in Mackay in 1963/65, 1969 and 1979-81. How lucky can one be!!
1617 is leaving the [South] Bundaberg station on the main line [platform road] and running north probably to North Bundaberg loco to stable.
105 is a C16 and is working a harbour shunt. It will take its train of sugar box MTWs through the Goods Yard and across one of the 3 Pioneer River bridges [at that time] to Mackay Harbour. Note a down train in the platform road and the Netherdale Rail Motor [a 102hp unit and two trailers] in the east Up dock.
569 is arriving [South] Bundaberg off the Burnett River bridge with a goods, probably from Wallaville or Tirroan although it is possible it is leaving the Millaquin branch [the junction is below the train and the line ran east [to the right of the photo].
When I first visited Mackay, the locals told me it was pronounced Mac K as that was how the person the town was named after pronounced it but when I last worked in Mackay in 1981 it had evolved to Muck eye.
Thank you for the memories. Bundaberg is little changed but the area of Mackay Passenger station is gone replaced by the by-pass and the current station at what was previously Paget.
Brian Webber
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