Merredin Railway Museum & Water Tower Merredin, Western Australia, Australia
By
Lazarus_68 on 17-Dec-17. Waypoint GA11123
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Unknown or Mystery |
| Container: | Small |
| Coordinates: | S31° 28.997' E118° 16.747' (WGS 84) |
| 50J 621496E 6516127N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 322 m |
| Local Government Area: | Merredin |
/118.279117,-31.483283,14/400x200?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiY2F1Z2h0YXR3b3JrIiwiYSI6ImNqa2l4ZzNzMDE5bjgzdm1sZGpuODF1Mm0ifQ.q8YMzVyzDJJlJHHV8EMjwQ)
Description
Cache is NOT at above coordinates, however is a good place to park your car
Cache may be found at... S31° 2A.BCD' E118° 16.XYZ'
A = Year that original Merredin Station opened? 3rd digit.
B = Year that Railway Museum building architecture dates back to? 3rd digit minus one.
D = Signal box houses how many levers? Difference between two digits.
The Museum has an orange diesel locomotive with 4-digit number...
C = 3rd digit
X = 4th digit minus 1st
The Museum has a "G" class steam locomotive with 3-digit number...
Y = 3rd digit
Z = all 3 digits summed
Answers to above may be found locally, or with keen Internet search.
Hints
nobir urnq urvtug, zvag gva, zntargvp |
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Decode |
Logs
Our last cache for the day in Merredin. Collected the relevant info and calculated our final. Oops we made a mistake and ended up at something that was not able to hold a magnetic container. Reworked the numbers and arrived at gz to make a quick find. Thanks Lazarus
We have travelled from A (our home in SW of WA) to B via the Savannah Way from Broome to Cairns with a two week unexpected detainment in Mackay which has set us back, now sadly travelling back to A via the Outback Way from Winton to Laverton 
Yep definitely above head height for 4ft 8in me
but we managed to get cache down and sign the log
TFTC
**NOTE: the lid is broken but hopefully log shouldn't fall out with the way we put it
Yep definitely above head height for 4ft 8in me
but we managed to get cache down and sign the log TFTC
**NOTE: the lid is broken but hopefully log shouldn't fall out with the way we put it
Rated: for Overall Experience
Pulled up in town and unhitched the caravan so we could explore using Geocaching as a guide.
Didn't have time to do the museum justice so Mrs Felix set about using Google to help us. Mr Felix wandered about and grabbed some numbers to help along the way.
Numbers collected now time to hunt the cache. Hmm not here, not there. I don't know. Mrs Felix jumps out to help and says, is this it?
TFTC Lazarus_68
Didn't have time to do the museum justice so Mrs Felix set about using Google to help us. Mr Felix wandered about and grabbed some numbers to help along the way.
Numbers collected now time to hunt the cache. Hmm not here, not there. I don't know. Mrs Felix jumps out to help and says, is this it?
TFTC Lazarus_68
*FTF* Day 1 of our eastern states trip, Passing through Merredin on the way to Adelaide, Melbourne Canberra and ending in Jindabyne. I had solved the puzzle with the help of Mr Google, and checked the coordinates were good to go. Had a little trouble on site so resorted to phoning a friend. The cache was well hidden and not easy to spot, in fact I had looked there but due to shadows it was hard to see. Many thanks for the cache.
Rated: for Overall Experience
