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Locos 5139 and 5475 are parked in the scrap row sidings at Enfield. These two led by loco 5408 ran light engine from Lithgow arriving an hour or two before this photo on a drizzly August 1972 weekday. This marked the end of steam in the West of NSW. 5408 was later transfered to Pt Waratah where it stayed till the end of steam there in December.

This was the same day I had this ride to TAFE in the morning. The two 59s can be seen behind exhaling their last steam.
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