Locomotive 44208.
Locomotive 44208.
Its builder’s number was G-6045-08 and was one of 40 locomotives of the class to be built and it was delivered on 11th August 1971 where it was given the number 44208.
Of those original 40 442 class locomotives built sadly only 10 have survived and 44208 is one of those survivors and now calls the shunting yards of Manildra Mills home.
With the imminent sale of FreightCorp the surviving locomotives were sold in 2001 to Victoria’s Great Northern Rail Services.
In total 5 of the NSW 442 class locomotives were refurbished and would be returned to service as the JL class with locomotive 44208 was renumbered to JL403.
On 13th May 1997 the NSW State Rail Authority decommissioned locomotive 44208 and it was withdrawn from service.
Despite all these setbacks in 2005 44208 was given yet another refurbishment before it was sold to the Manildra Group.
Today 44208 operates within the confines of the Manildra Group’s shunting yard and is now classified as a ‘driver Only’ loco.
Manildra, New South Wales, Australia.
Locomotive 44208.
Locomotive 44208.
Its builder’s number was G-6045-08 and was one of 40 locomotives of the class to be built and it was delivered on 11th August 1971 where it was given the number 44208.
Of those original 40 442 class locomotives built sadly only 10 have survived and 44208 is one of those survivors and now calls the shunting yards of Manildra Mills home.
With the imminent sale of FreightCorp the surviving locomotives were sold in 2001 to Victoria’s Great Northern Rail Services.
In total 5 of the NSW 442 class locomotives were refurbished and would be returned to service as the JL class with locomotive 44208 was renumbered to JL403.
On 13th May 1997 the NSW State Rail Authority decommissioned locomotive 44208 and it was withdrawn from service.
Despite all these setbacks in 2005 44208 was given yet another refurbishment before it was sold to the Manildra Group.
Today 44208 operates within the confines of the Manildra Group’s shunting yard and is now classified as a ‘driver Only’ loco.
Manildra, New South Wales, Australia.