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Welcome to Pothana Lane. This is one of the best locations to train-spot through-out the Hunter Valley. Train enthusiasts say, "It is the best you can get." I am also a trainspotter. So I decided to put a cache at my favourite location in the Hunter Valley. Good luck if you find this cache. Coal trains pass this location every 16 minutes. The Coal Trains (Coalies) go from Port Waratah and Kooragang, all out west to collieries. Multiple freight logistics use this line, carrying coal, ore, and other products. This line is named the North Western Line, a.k.a, the Scone Branch of the Hunter Line. The North Western Line not only works passenger trains, but also works iron ore, cotton, coal, grain, transfer, freight and a bunch more. The main sight at this given location is coal trains, you may also get a sight of the Cobar Ore train, the only ore train that runs in the Hunter, bound for Cobar, then returns to Morandoo at Newcastle, and a couple passenger services. Pothana Lane is known as one of the most famous, and greatest trainspotting locations in NSW, known well by trainspotters and railfans, and partially by some of the nearby residents. To learn more about the trainspotting hobby, here is what it's about: Those who are "trainspotters" make an effort to "spot" all of a certain type of rolling stock. This might be a particular class of locomotive, a particular type of carriage or all the rolling stock of a particular company. To this end, they collect and exchange detailed information about the movements of locomotives and other equipment on the railway network, and become very knowledgeable about its operations. A trainspotter typically uses a data book listing the locomotives or equipment in question, in which locomotives seen are ticked off. In Great Britain, this aspect of the hobby was given a major impetus by the publication from 1942 onward of the Ian Allan "ABC" series of booklets, whose publication began in response to public requests for information about the rolling stock of Southern Railways.[12]Sometimes, trainspotters also have cameras, but railway photography is mostly linked to railfans. Moreover, in contrast to modern railway companies' attitudes, at its inception in 1948 British Railways handed out free copies of a locomotive data book to school-children.[citation needed] Some trainspotters now use a tape recorder instead of a notebook. In modern times, mobile phones and/or pagers are used to communicate with others in the hobby, while various internet mailing lists and web sites aid information exchange. Railbuffs can maintain private computerised databases of spotting records as well. Radio scanners are common equipment for listening to railroad frequencies in the US to follow rail traffic.[citation needed] It is a misconception that all railfans are trainspotters. Many enthusiasts simply enjoy reading about or travelling on trains, or enjoying their rich history—this may extend to art, architecture, the operation of railroads, or simply modelling, drawing or photographing them. To Geocacher's, Enjoy your time, bring your kids (Don't forget the camera) and enjoy the cache, and the trains!
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