Spot the Magpie #1. VL80 1981, Temirtau Yards - Karagandy. 17th May 2024.
VL80s-1981 awaits its next turn at the eastern end of the huge Temirtau Marshalling yards, Karaganda Oblast, Kazakhstan. May the 17th 2024.
ВЛ80с-1981 на станции Жанааул, Темитрау. Карагандинская область, Казахстан.
We do have one last plan for our final morning in Temirtau. As we never had any trouble there we will go to the Janaaul station and await the arrival of a morning commuter train, there is one shown as calling there on google earth. There is no timetable posted at the station and nothing at the terminus in Temirtau either. The terminus building has been given over to government tax office use and the train stops on grass covered tracks alongside coal wagons, we checked it out the afternoon prior. Driving out to the station we see a white electric suburban unit heading in the direction of Temirtau. We will sit it out and await its return. The yard tannoy sounds just before everytime something moves, which is generally the ChME3 on hump shunting movements, including the cutting off of the various wagons. The shouts - unintelligible to us - ricochet across the yards from the multiple speakers placed around the complex. It is quite phsycedelic in its own way and we amuse ourselves in our own solitary manner as we pass the time in the morning sun awaiting the white commuter train to return.
Spot the Magpie #1. VL80 1981, Temirtau Yards - Karagandy. 17th May 2024.
VL80s-1981 awaits its next turn at the eastern end of the huge Temirtau Marshalling yards, Karaganda Oblast, Kazakhstan. May the 17th 2024.
ВЛ80с-1981 на станции Жанааул, Темитрау. Карагандинская область, Казахстан.
We do have one last plan for our final morning in Temirtau. As we never had any trouble there we will go to the Janaaul station and await the arrival of a morning commuter train, there is one shown as calling there on google earth. There is no timetable posted at the station and nothing at the terminus in Temirtau either. The terminus building has been given over to government tax office use and the train stops on grass covered tracks alongside coal wagons, we checked it out the afternoon prior. Driving out to the station we see a white electric suburban unit heading in the direction of Temirtau. We will sit it out and await its return. The yard tannoy sounds just before everytime something moves, which is generally the ChME3 on hump shunting movements, including the cutting off of the various wagons. The shouts - unintelligible to us - ricochet across the yards from the multiple speakers placed around the complex. It is quite phsycedelic in its own way and we amuse ourselves in our own solitary manner as we pass the time in the morning sun awaiting the white commuter train to return.