Coal Train

This is Australias longest and heaviest coal train. Run between Stirling North and Leigh Creek, some 260Km north of Port Augusta.

The train averages 156 waggons, for a loaded gross of abou 15000t - it is about 3000m long. In this video it is travelling at around 80km/h. The noise is from the recently ground rail.

It is, I understand, the longest and heaviest head end powered train in the world.


Video is of the train crossing Brachina Creek Bridge

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• PNR
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• National
• Brachina
• Leigh
• Creek
• Coal
• train
• longest
• V544
• 8202
• 8229

[GH700v]

The Load on the Draw gear must be phenominal, where are the two remote Loco's in the middle?

[mt14l]

@GH700v No Head end only

[akhiltanwar]

170 boggies

[mt14l]

you mean bogies? - boggies is when your car is stuck in the mud

[MZ1428]

Very Good, different seeing V544 on the front of the 82's,I heard that 8229 went over your way after those two rail workers got Killed at Singleton here in the HunterValley.our mate had the job at cleaning the locos & wagons after the accident.V544 is also another Local built loco only 5 minutes up the road from us where we do our Video's & Photography.

Keep em coming.

[mt14l]

Thanks for the feedback - didn't realise the link to the Hunter Valley Accident - very sad.

[ecyob100]

The coal trains i take from williamson wv to portsmouth oh are on average about 230 to 260 cars long.

[MegaFred55]

Wow. No pushers!!

[turnbs]

@Scrige It is the longest and heaviest HEAD END POWER train in the world. Yes the pilbara trains are bigger but have mid and end train units. I may be wrong but I'm fairly certain that the 682 wagon train was a one-off test train and does not operate in normal revenue service. These normal trains are around 200 odd cars and around 30,000t approx.

[FallingandRunning]

I'm not a train person, so I'll have to admit when I see a train that long I think of what it has to be like sitting behind the dingers waiting for the thing to pass. LoL.

[p0pupt0aster]

Been to Leigh creek saw this love it! Thanks for posting

[sr20rodeo]

fukn american wankers think they've got the best. i live in the hunter valley we also have the largest coal loading port in the world,

[Scrige]

I think you'll find heavier cars than this in the Hunter...

This isn't the longest train in the world, nor the heaviest, both  of those are the one train in Western Australia, 682 cars long and weighs over 100 000t

[ufn489]

Amazing how things have improved with rail transportation as i remember seeing the Leigh Creek Coal Trains during the early 1950s being hauled by doubled headed T Class steam engines and with a dozen or so open gondolas in trail.That was on N.G and on a different route of course..Great video for sure.