Us Lithgow lads never worked into Kooragang.
That is for the BIG coalies.
The size of the coalies dependent upon the actual source coal loader.
Ulan coalies being generally the biggest in the Hunter Valley.
We did briefly work into Port Waratah, the smaller coal unloader facility in the Newcastle burbs.
Even the coalies working to there were massive compared to our puny Cadia concentrate ore train from Blayney.
If it wasn't for the digging and exporting of black diamonds, the Newcastle region would be impoverished.
The Newcastle steel works near Port Waratah was closed some moons ago.
The 1997 Beresfield coal train collision was mammoth and amazing that nobody was killed.
https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications...r/rair1998001/
As union cab committee rep, I got lumbered with the development of the Beresfield vigilance system that was mandated after the inquest.
A facet of the prang being deemed to be the then existing locomotive vigo system as being inadequate.
Mind you, it took the 1999 Glenbrook fatal Indian Pacific prang for management to get agitated about the implementation of the improved vigo system.
Steve.