The Abandoned Railway - Nothing to Switch North Yeoval, New South Wales, Australia
By Team Webguy on 24-Aug-14. Waypoint GC5BM3E

Very neat and tidy town spread out amongst the farming community.took a little to find. Plenty of parking here.thanks cache will need replacing soon

Pretty creative spot, container is starting to break a bit.. clips on the sides are falling off but can still clip just be careful, also not sure if caches are supposed to be on the other side of a fence line but also be careful of the barbed wire

Fence in place, time to go...

First for the day as we leave the Showgrounds having camped there over night. Rode our bikes round the town yesterday arvo. Looks a nice tidy village to live in. TFTC

We are on our way homeafter the Mega in Canberra, found the cache with TBU1BIKESU. Tftc to the CO Team Webguy

We had to climb over fences to get to GZ - normally that's not the rule.Time had come to say bye bye to ACT. We are on the way home after having been in South Australia, Victoria, NSW and Canberra - for the 2 MEGAs, selective caches and sightseeing.We found this cache and signed the log.Tftc Team Webguy

That was easy.The trip bit.Easter geocaching festival of twenty twenty four. This time it is the turn of OzGeoMuster MEGA event in the nation's capital. It is time for a road trip across country to Canberra in the Sporty Pajero Sports. Freddo and Gridge98 traveling from Adelaide via a strange inland route that takes in scenic rural locations, dusty roads, punctured tyres, overheating batteries, various tools of the trade, special campgrounds, and lots scope for many many geocaching finds. Along the way we saw running emus, jumping kangaroos, wandering deer, dead foxes, herds of wooly sheep and stray steers.Arriving in Canberra we met our colleagues e.gregory1, featherwaite, team walron, courtney rose, davidwazza and georode, signing as ABP, plus a huge group of other like minded excited mega geocachers attending event after event, and more events.Day one. Adelaide to Broken HillDay two. Broken Hill to WellingtonDay three. Wellington to CowraDay four. Cowra to BathurstDay five. Bathurst to CanberraDay six. Canberra to CanberraDay seven. Canberra to QueenbeeyanDay eight. Canberra to AdelaideThe generic bit.I will apologize right now, because everything from here on is here solely for the purpose of padding the word count and winning that one hundred word diamond badge again. Somebody moved the goal posts. So many caches to find. So many caches to log. We find them, sign them and replace them.This particular geocache was found using one of the following GPS enabled devices, Garmin GPSr, Montana 680t, Oregon 650 or Dakota 20 and an Apple iPhone 11 using the marvelous Cachly app. Waypoints and paperless geocaching were downloaded via GSAK 9. Log prepared, checked and submitted using GSAK publish logs macro.Warning, this hobby can be addictive. It can lead to exercise, meeting new people and finding interesting places you might not have known existed otherwise. Beware: you may have fun. Apologies for the generic part of the cache log. We do apologise for the generic logs. Thanks to all the cache owner for placing this cache here for our enjoyment.Thanks for the cache. Merci la cache. Danke fr den Cache. Gracias por el cach. Bedankt voor de cache. Kiitos ktkst. Terima kasih untuk cache. Hvala cache. Nga mihi mo te keteroki. Dankie vir die kas. Ksznm a rejtst. Vdaka za cache. Dzieki za cache. Takk for at cache. Obrigado por isso cache. Dky za ke. Aciu u ta talpykla. Paldies par o cache. Aith selle eest cache. Tack fr att Cache. Tak for denne Cache. nbellek iin tesekkrler. Ksznjk, hogy a cache. Graas para o cache. Dankon pro la kasmemorone. Dank fr de csch. Eskerrik asko cache horrengatik. Na gode da wannan cache. Zikomo chifukwa cha cache.I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Come visit the world's longest running annual geocaching event - keep the weekend free - 7th - 10th June 2024 Cant wait!! GCAK1D5 - Lameroo's Ludicrous Legwarmers

A quick find here, cache is all goodHeaded over to the Capital GeoBash in Canberra, ACT with Freddo over 5 days, travelling through the central part of NSW before caching around the hinterlands. A nice few days over with great weather.Thanks for the cache

Find#6049Nice hiding place What a epic road trip exploring Australia Thanks for the cache

Goodluck you must have a keen eye for this one

I had a little curious friend watching me. TFTC.

A quick find while spending some time at Dubbo.TFTC

Found

Bit of leg lifting to get there. TFTC

Took a bit longer until I realised it was made by Webguy which made me realise I wasn’t looking for a nano! TFTC.

So sneaky. Finally can turn blue to yellow, 3rd visit.

Tftf

TFTC

Tftc

Heading home from Orange to Armidale, I took a detour to pick up the caches in Yeoval. I was a bit wary of jumping the fence, particularly as I could hear people around. But I was quickly over & back & on my way again with the smiley & without any issues. TFTC

Found on 14/07/22 whilst in Yeoval for a couple of days visiting friends. Lovely day for some caching

4th of seven in the area.

SL TNLN TFTC

Thanks for your cache. Felt a bit funny going over fence but no one took any notice

Thanks

Find # 10327

Up in Parkes for 2 weeks with work. Looking after the factory while the local manager has a well earned Holiday.

Having the weekend to myself I decided I had to go for a look around the area this seen me go from Parkes to Wellington taking a couple of back tracks.

going from the dish I was making my way to Wellington aiming for the caves and the 2 virtual caches there. along the way I stopped at a few of the "odd" locations for some grabs.

Jumping the fence I felt like I was a little exposed and possibly on private property. thankfully a quick find and off to the next one.

TFTC Team Webguy

Building our army across NSW
Cheers for the cache

Lovely spot.

I needed this cache for my current challenge. I love a challenge! This one fills a blank spot. I hopped through and found this cache quickly and easily.

Once we figured out how to get to it it was a fairly straightforward find. TFTC

Tool a little bit of searching but the cleverly made cache was soon in hand. I wonder when the last train traveled on these tracks ? tftc

A nice stop on our journey across the country from Adelaide to Brisbane with Davidwazza! TFTC!

Moving from Adelaide to Brisbane, [@jesswrigley](http://coord.info/PRNW59T) and I decided to drive the long distance to make the opportunity a holiday, taking 12 days and passing through Victoria, New South Wales, and then finally arriving in Queensland. We spent the first few days in SA's Riverland, visiting Morgan, Berri and Renmark; and then drove through Mildura in Victoria. In NSW, we stopped at Hay, Parkes, Merriwa, Tamworth, Port Macquarie, and Coffs Harbour, and then entered Qld to stop for a night in Robina in the Gold Coast.

Today, [@jesswrigley](http://coord.info/PRNW59T) and I travelled from Parkes to Merriwa. We travelled north-east via Baldry, Yeoval, to Wellington, where we visited the Wellington Caves, and stopped for lunch. We then continued the drive north-east through Spicers Creek, Two Mile Flat, Gulgong, Ulan, arriving in Merriwa in the evening in time for a pizza dinner. Afternoon highlights were walks to The Drip Gorge and Hands On The Rock (Ulan Aboriginal Rock Art), and several of NSW's LGAs were visited during our travels today.

What a cool old railway. We navigated the barbed wire fence, and jogged past the flock of sheep. Luckily/thankfully, it was a quick find of the cache here, and the cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks Team Webguy for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.
Note that this geocache was logged with the *Team Warren* Davidwazza/jesswrigley stamp.

OCW the Bebes. Had a look around for a little while before finding. Was being cautious because of logs about a snake!! Finally got it though. Tftc

OCW PelDroedGwin and Geodog Peppa

Visiting from Sydney.

The rain is coming down now but that won’t stop us exploring.

A very fun location

Tftc

This was a quick find. TFTC

Despite our best efforts, all the pretty prickles, the barbed wire and the big snake we still had a good look and could not find. Great spot thank you

Not a fan of jumping fences

Team Webguy I found your cache The Abandoned Railway - Nothing to Switch on 31/8/20, 1:25 pm. This is my find 2642 and find # 5 today. Interesting place. No problems locating this cache. Thanks for the cache, mate! TNSLLN

Suck a good find

Found it great location

SURE

An interesting location - obviously this was a bustling branch many years ago serving the wheat silos. Took a little while to locate the geocache but had an interesting fossick around the site.

396. Found after a short search with meals 5 on a pleasant geocaching day. TFTC!

From June 1, travel restrictions are being eased in NSW. Cache on!

In light of the current travel restrictions and the requests by regional councils to stay away etc, I am disabling all my caches until the COVID-19 situation has passed and things return back to normal. Please respect this and do not go looking for these caches.

In all are travels we would not have even thought to traveled to this location.
(Ha Ha). In your dreams, these cachers do.

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

Devilish

Brilliant and Clever

I like it

Another one of the list

TTBLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH - Team Webguy [^]

Caching in the company of GrumpyBump, on our slow, meandering way to the Mega event in Millicent, S.A.
A quick find, in the expected area.
TNLNSL TFTC

Very clever, took a while to figure out how to get to it.

Easy find... friend thought she was trespassing

Tftc

Had to get over a barb wire fence, but easy then

Back where I grew up visiting family. Forgot how hot and dry it is out here. TFTC lovely area... bloody flies! Had to jump a fence. But found easily

Beautiful day inYeoval TFTC

A gate and a fence needed to be negotiated to get to this one, but got to it. TFTC

Road trip to Coffs with Lou 2nd cache for day

No 177. On a slow trip to Coffs Harbour - cache no 2 with sandylittle
Cache found near coordinates, don't look for the old switch handle as it's been removed
Follow the clue and it will be found
TB's took the opportunity to share a photo taken at the Banjo Patterson Hat
TFTC

Hi there Team Webguy.

We found your cache **"The Abandoned Railway - Nothing to Switch"** today. (This makes our find count 19406).

Today we cached north-astwards, to Yeoval and Obley, before heading back to our camp at Parkes. The aim of the day was to cache along some roads we haven't traveled on since we became full time grey nomads, so we can draw another line on our wall map).

We found 9 caches today (DNF'd 3) .We thoroughly enjoyed our cache raid but are disappointed at the number of poorly maintained caches along our route. Thanks for placing the cache here, without geocaching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places on our travels. Thanks also for not placing a mint tin or a 200ml Sistema here. It made us feel really good to find this "special" cache here.

***Coordinate Accuracy:** We found your cache around 2m from where the GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** The container and log book are in good shape.
**Took:** Nothing.
**Left:** A Smiley Badge.

Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Ian & Penny.

Nice quick find while out and about! Thanks for placing Team Webguy! : )

Tftc quick find after I got thru the fence. Tftc

Enjoying the Easter weekend at Manildra with my caravanning friends. Today we went for a drive to Molong, Cumnock, and Yeoval to see the Animals on Bikes sculptures.

Found easily. Signed log. Thanks.

Squassum Luv Bug visited.

Nice easy one to find.

7076 located by baby&Mrs gopher at 1125.Parked just over the crossing and then strolled along the old track. The container was soon in hand and SL Cache in good condition. Tnx Team Webguy

Found whilst enjoying the back way from Dubbo to Parkes
Quick find, cool cache, lovely area
TFTC Team Webguy

Tftc. Only thing around to witness our find were the sheep I

Tftc. Quick park and grab.

J

Found it!!!!(FINALLY)
I have to admit I have been here about 3 times with no success!
As we were driving through I pleaded with muggle husband please just one more time!
I did stop and wonder if I should try again as there is now a fence running across the railway line.
Mmm should I ???? Of course I should I have been here 3 other times without fence and I'm not coming back after today!!!!! Lol
Has to be a favourite for me - I think??? Thanks for keeping me coming back Team Webguy!!!!

Travelling in the area for a few days. Log may be stamped Coongoola or small logs signed CG. SL

Thanks for placing this cache Team Webguy

#738 Twelfth of eighteen finds on a day's caching around Dubbo, Wellington and Yeovil. Easy find after a short search. TFTC

Found as part of an Orange and surrounds geomission with fitzy_1965, AngelG27 & Sol de Lune (signed as FASS to save time & space) Top weather, great company and lots of laughs meant for an epic weekend of caching all round!

Saw where a possible GZ for this one was when parking up nearby. Quick find by AngelG27. The silos here and on the drive really tickled her fancy

Thanks for the hide, Team Webguy

Fitzy_1965, SpecimenX, Sol de Lune and I (logged as "FASS") headed from Canberra to Orange and surrounds for a caching blitz over the 30-31 July weekend. We logged around 1000kms in the Geo-Jeep, selecting those caches that Fitzy had not previously found. I scored around 130 caches for the trip. The visit was characterised by blue skies, very green paddocks, lots of water off and on the road, a fair amount of mud, and good company! Still plenty of caches to collect and scenic spots to explore on a return trip. Thanks to my fellow travellers for a fun weekend, and the COs for all their efforts in putting out and maintaining the caches.

35th for the day at 1325 (110 for the trip). Fitzy and I looked for this one, and I found it after being directed by Fitzy to look in this place! I dared SpecimenX to park the car on the railway line, but old habits die hard (and are probably good ones in the event). Thanks Team Webguy!

11298. Headed up to the Orange region with AngelG27, Sol de Lune and specimenX ("FASS") for a fun-filled weekend of caching. Lots of caches found, a few not found, and a lot of laughs had as we toured around over 2 full days as far north as Wellington which resulted in 124 finds for me.

Headed out early again today for a final big run of caches before heading home to Canberra. Next stop for the day on a loop up to Wellington and back. Another quick find at GZ. Log signed, cache returned and we were off to the next one.

Thanks again Team Webguy !! Seeing these artworks around the area was great !

TNLN - TFTC !!

Took us a little while as so many places tftc

It took us a while to find it because there's so many different places for it to be hidden but we found it. TFTC.

TFTC.. Sneaky one this one

Old railways always seem to have such interesting things to explore. This was no exception. The cache was found quickly as the co-ordinates are really good. The log was quickly signed and all was replaced. It was easy caching around Yeoval today as all the locals were probably at the show. Thanks for so many cachers in this town.

Found it . TFTH. SL. Good to do one of your caches for a change. A beautiful area. I really enjoyed this cache, sitting here on an old abandoned railway line with silos nearby out in the middle of what seems no where. I feel quite content just sitting here. I see these kinds of places on tv but never actually have a reason to want to go and explore, I guess that is what's so good about caching, coming to placed like this. Thanks for bringing me here to enjoy this location.

Ask me if you want to know what name I **signed the log book** transferring finds to this new caching name. Was OCW and as part of “Team” Throsbyonchurch. TFTC.

I found this cache jointly with TOC and now I have my own account I am claiming my fair share of the finds. I can cache on my own now. As I didn't have a caching name so there's no log book for me. Thank you for the hide.

2nd for the day. Took a little searching but a great hide. SL TNLN TFTC

Were almost about to give up when I decided to check a slightly different area and voila! Thanks for yet another great Yeoval cache!

Was about to mention how quiet and peaceful it is here and then some youngster starts to ride his motorbike, no really going anywhere. TFTC

Took a stroll over from the showground camp in between showers of rain, looked for cache in all the usual places, however once finding it I realised my mistake of looking for the obvious "magnetic" cache and was duped by that. Signed log and replaced as was found, contents and cache are in good condition. TFTC.

This took a while but it was interesting being able to get up close to the mechanism and play with all the moving parts - some still moved despite the rust. Did not expect such a big box! TFTC

We made it a bit harder than it should have been by looking for a micro, but it was great to get up close the all the good gear and have a play. TFTC

We've come out to Yeoval from Sydney for Dead Men Talking - a play/ conversation between Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson. Being as Banjo spent some of his early years here, it seemed an appropriate place to catch the event. Highly recommended! We discovered TWG's connections here just before we came. Spent the night at the friendly Royal Hotel and took a morning walk to the north side of town.

The story behind the cache name became obvious as we approached GZ. Nice way to learn about the history of Yeoval. Might want to watch this cache for muggle so. The log book had a number to call for a good time and a damp cigarette which we removed. Decided to forego the good time offer and continue caching! SL TFTC Cheers... Gaztek

A nice easy cache on our Sunday mini road trip out west, 16 caches found for the day (4hr's of caching) with not a dud cache in them , only one DNF , thanx heaps to all the hiders of the caches , that took us on roads we had never traveled ! We had a top one, cheers and thanx again
thanx heaps webby all good caches, we really enjoyed ya hides

Travelling around Australia in our Caravan with our cat.


After a night in Toongi it was off for a leisurley drive via 'The Dish' to Parkes.

We unhitched in Yeoval before heading out to see what we could find.


TFTC Team Webguy

QLD Mega trip 2015 with Sol de Lune. On this almost 400km road trip we drove from Canberra to Stanthorpe caching in all the towns along the way with mostly great success. Around the Mega there were heaps of caches to be done including a few power trails. Despite the weather we got all of the planned caches done.

On day one of our trip we headed from Canberra to Dubbo. The caching was in the second half of the day at small towns and around Dubbo itself. Mostly it went soothly. Plenty of ants around to make it all more exciting. Thanks.

18965.17 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2012 Egypt A#236

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Found with Albida33 on the way to the Stanthorpe Mega......so please excuse the generic log.

The cache was found without any issues and the log was soon signed....then back in the car and off to continue our travels.

Thanks for the cache and adding to the fun of our Mega trip.....

My Mulga Bill Tour of Yeoval continues, and out back of the silos I found this neglected bit of railway track and various bits of railway stuff rusting away in the grass
The levers don't work any more

So where was the cache ??
Silly me was looking for a micro
When I found the cache I kicked meself

Nice spot

Passing through on our way to Victoria nice easy find thanks.

Found the cache but the hint doesn't describe the cache it's not magnetic.

Great spot for a cache but the hint doesn't help. TFTC

TFTC

Found it

The second last day of our Christmas/New Year camping trip saw us heading from Wanda Wandong camping area in Goobang National Park via Yeoval, Cumnock and Molong down to Orange.

It is always a bit depressing to see the remnants of old railways and imaging how it was when they were in full action.

Easy find after a short search. TFTC

Tftc

Tftc, took a minutes.