It has happened.
NEM Watch is showing NO brown coal generated power in SA. Yesterday it was showing 200MW of brown coal sourced generation, about one Northern unit at 80%, today nothing. Gas burn has increased to compensate.

Wait for the brown outs, load shedding and blackouts!

Ian

Sorry guys, I get emotional about this.
First day without coal fired power and the wind farms can only produce 384MW out of their almost 1500MW capacity. Reason too much wind.

At one stage even the diesel generators kicked in.


SA in sinking, the first place to be able to build submarines under water.



Ian

On the day we shut down one coal fired power station, China and India opened 2 each.   Fortunately that works out well for our coal exporters.

On the day we shut down one coal fired power station, China and India opened 2 each.   Fortunately that works out well for our coal exporters.

I'm pretty sure that Downer has been doing perway maintenance for the Leigh Creek line for quite some time. PacNat ran the trains but I don't think they ever did anything below-rail.

I'm pretty sure that Downer has been doing perway maintenance for the Leigh Creek line for quite some time. PacNat ran the trains but I don't think they ever did anything below-rail.

Going by the wording "control" PacNat has withdrawn their train control In this line.

I'm pretty sure that Downer has been doing perway maintenance for the Leigh Creek line for quite some time. PacNat ran the trains but I don't think they ever did anything below-rail.

Going by the wording "control" PacNat has withdrawn their train control In this line.

Controlling trains on that line sounds like the easiest job in the world!

On the day we shut down one coal fired power station, China and India opened 2 each.   Fortunately that works out well for our coal exporters.

On the day we shut down one coal fired power station, China and India opened 2 each.   Fortunately that works out well for our coal exporters.

Seeing as how you failed to answer last time, you can off course back this up with figures and not Facebook memes?

700 power stations each per year - not even 'avin a larf. Just pure redneck bollocks.

On the day we shut down one coal fired power station, China and India opened 2 each.   Fortunately that works out well for our coal exporters.

Seeing as how you failed to answer last time, you can off course back this up with figures and not Facebook memes?

700 power stations each per year - not even 'avin a larf. Just pure redneck bollocks.

[color=#00aaab]According to a new Greenpeace analysis, in the first nine months of 2015 China’s central and provincial governments issued environmental approvals to 155 coal-fired power plants [/color]— that’s four per week.

Ok, I was a bit extreme, but none the less somewhere in the ball park.

Can we offer to run coal trains from the Latrobe Valley to Stirling North.
Sorry about:

• The break of gauge

I'm pretty sure that Downer has been doing perway maintenance for the Leigh Creek line for quite some time. PacNat ran the trains but I don't think they ever did anything below-rail.

Going by the wording "control" PacNat has withdrawn their train control In this line.

Controlling trains on that line sounds like the easiest job in the world!

Well the only interfacing with "other" trains would be to cross the ARTC controlled DIRN at Stirling North on each trip, as well any maintenance crews that maybe out that way, so not much traffic at all.

Hi all,

The first auction at Playford Power Station at Port Augusta will occur over the 21st and 22nd June 2016 by MGS Auctioneers. The advertisement has appeared this week in one of our local papers.

Hi all,

The first auction at Playford Power Station at Port Augusta will occur over the 21st and 22nd June 2016 by MGS Auctioneers. The advertisement has appeared this week in one of our local papers.

It's been a very busy time for Mason Gray Auctions, they've been liquidating lots of Adelaide businesses recently and now the Port Augusta power station.

Hi.
I am curious as to the reasoning why the AK cars will soon be having a trip out to Leigh Creek.

I find it a little surprising but assume it is because the line is considered 'suspended/mothballed' as opposed to 'closed'; however is there really any chance of another train running on this line again in the future?

To the uninformed and ignorant, the upcoming AK cars run seems a bit redundant at this stage.



Over to you, the voice of reason..........

Hi.
I am curious as to the reasoning why the AK cars will soon be having a trip out to Leigh Creek.

I find it a little surprising but assume it is because the line is considered 'suspended/mothballed' as opposed to 'closed'; however is there really any chance of another train running on this line again in the future?

To the uninformed and ignorant, the upcoming AK cars run seems a bit redundant at this stage.



Over to you, the voice of reason..........

At least two companies looking at it for future use.

Not convinced either will succeed, but better to keep the line up to scratch until we know more.

Or maybe just Alinta using the data to prove that the line is being handed back in original or better condition.

....didn't someone earlier in this thread allude to there being no access to the line

^
Fair points made there. Thanks for your replies.

Is it too hard to tell at this stage whether or not this week's AK cars trip will be the last train to run on the line for the foreseeable future?