# 2 in a series following the Wangi Wangi Branchline.
The cache is hidden in a typical (though a little weathered) feature of most NSWGR rural lines. Though some out west did not even have these.
To continue the story of this branchline....
As we learned at Bridge, the line was created to cater to Wangi Wangi Powerstation. This cache lets look at the great machines that road these rails.
Typically the 60 Class Garrets were favoured on the line, readily available out of Broadmeadow Loco, and would probably make up a days work, running an empty from the port of Newcastle back to Newstan, then three round trips from Newstan or the State Mine to Wangi, then a loaded Coalie back to Port out of Newstan. All in a goods days work, though they would not do this alone. A Standrad Goods 2-8-0 or a '59 Class would accompany on the first trip out, and stay at the Power staion and shunt the empties and fulls around as they were deliverd and picked up. I wish i was there to see these great behemoths of the industrial revolution, going about their work. To see this working, would have been a sight to see as these great machines and their men, working to their limits on grades and turns that nearly stretched their limits.
The final run was made by 6042, on 24th February 1973, after three return trips to Awaba. I do believe, another train did traverse these rails after this date, a Rail Transport Museum Tour Train, but it is unclear if it eventuated.