Pacific National 9025, 9212, LDP008 & LDP001 at East Maitland - 30/6/24

Pacific National’s four loco lash up with 9025, 9212, LDP008 & LDP001 pass through East Maitland at 3:54pm with MR206 loaded coal on Sunday 30th June, 2024.
LDP008 has just come back from an overhaul at Downer EDI Cardiff in NSW. As well as the overhaul, it has returned to service painted in the Pacific National colour scheme. LDP004 and LDP009 are the only two remaining LDP’s to receive this treatment.

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I noticed that these LDP' s had been allocated to the coal sector now since they had last been on NR freighters & steel trains in the past. it is just now they had been moved down to the hunter for workings on coal, believed to be replacing some of older 90 class that's now been in storage for the foreseeable future. with the LDP' being more modern for their work, its allowed some of those units to be given priority for class units to work on coal, among the 93 class/TT'S and still active other working 90 class that's still on coal haulage service down in the hunter.

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Arent there protests blocking trains and bringing trains to a halt