Planes and Trains Armidale West, New South Wales, Australia
By Armidillo on 24-Feb-08. Waypoint GC19M7J

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Unfortunatley - I have logged this as a find and indeed it was a DNF. I logged the wrong cache. Really sorry.
We also had a problem with GSAK too.
Had I off known it was missing I would have replaced it. It was very obvious where it should have been.

So now its established that the cache is not there, maybe the next cacher could replace it or it is made temporarily unavailable until replaced.

Cheers and thanks for showing us this area.

Had a good look but couldn't find anything where it looks like it should be.
Tftc

Wow a lot of history here, toot toot

cheers and thanks for the cache

Had a good look, unfortunately no results, loved the museum, there needs to be a cache here thanks Armidillo

Needs to be archived. 3 DNF's and one of them confirmed that it had been muggled after speaking to some locals. Why doesn't hte owner check on it?

I think it might be gone. If it lived where I think it lived, it would be very muggle-prone. I climbed the tree but nothing to be seen.

Couldn't find. Had fun looking anyway. Neighbours child told us it had gone missing.

DNF at 11.35 am As we appoached GZ a bus driver was out the front waiting for his passengers who were in the museum. He wouldn't stop looking at us - so we just continued with our snooping but then left it as we were really looking suspicious.
Thaanks Armidilo - checked out the museum and the station in the meantime

Found it easily, had no coins on us though sorry. TFTC

The cache was indeed gone. I have replaced it.

we had a very through search muggle free and we also came up empty handed. i think this has grown legs and wondered off. maybe it is a bit to cold for it. thanks anyway

We searched fairly thoroughly since there were no muggles around. We located a good potential spot, but nothing was there. Oh well, thanks anyway!

Wandrr and Mrs Wandrr, Ottawa, Canada

Came after the sun was down trying to illuminate the area with my phone, but I wasn't able to see anything and I think some muggles had noticed me so I decided to leave.

Not being able to find this cache was a real disappointment. We arrived at the cache, and had the place to ourselves, so aftr checking out the museum display it was off to the cache. Two sets of eyes, much wandering back and forward, reading previous posts, scratching, poking and prodding couldn't come up with the prize. So we eventaully conceded defeat, hung our heads and wandered off. I hope the cache hasn't suffered from the recent rains and it was just our searching skills which let us down. Cheers

Train station deserted so we had a picnic lunch next to the museum. No coins to drop off today.

Found at 0750hrs, Sorry mate had no coins on me

Nice location and the Armidale Train Station is well worth a visit.

TNLNSL & TFTH [:p]

Very interesting location.TNLN. Next day we took the free 2 hour bus tour of Armidale that you can book through the local tourist information center which brought us to the site again but with the added advantage of a guided tour through the museum. The bus pulls up right beside the geocache location.

Pretty much parked next to this, Hide-ee always seems surprised when I can walk straight up and find a cache this quick.
T: GC L:50 cent peices
SL
TFTC

Easy driveby and we left Landsergruppe's Aussie 2008 geocoin. Seeing as Don loves trains so much, we thought this was a fitting place. Would liked to have spent more time here but we had a schedule to keep. Thanks Armidillo for the cache,

Found ok on the return from down south. TNLN. Today’s finds are dedicated to my sister, Eunice Simpson, who’s funeral was yesterday in Sydney. Rest In peace Eunie, we love you.

My previous cache find had provided the planes, now for the trains
I arrived at just before 9:00am and was momentarily surprised at the lack of people about.
Either there is no train on Sunday or I should have set me watch to daylight saving time [:o)]
I strolled past the interesting collection of railway trolleys before quickly nabbing the cache
Thanks for the excuse for the lack of train spotting [^]

cache note book a bit damp

Our last find before heading North to Inverell. Great location for a Cache. Thanks from the Turbo Chickens

an old chook visited

Interesting museum was closed upon arrival, noted the times and realised why. Found cache quickly, but hey, where was weroamin? Beat him this time!! Took TB. SL.TFTC.

I let gerrynewgirl get this one first while I was busy looking at the exhibits. (Yeah believe what you want GNG) SL. TFTC.

Dropped in on the way to Sydney, Nice little town even if it has a limited rail service... Left Klara The Koala TB..

TFTC

Sinninen64

This cache was sitting out in the open so it was lucky it hadn't been muggled. We were here earlier in the day on a free bus trip which does a history tour of Armidale leaving each day from the info centre at 10am. The 2.5 hr trip is well worth it!. Anyhow, we came back to this spot later in the day to do our cache and found it quite quickly. We reburied cache to keep from muggle eyes! Found during a camping trip in Northern NSW. ...eatmorchickin and stigglepot from Brisbane.

2nd find after stopping overnight in Armidale. No-one around so it was a quick find.

TNLN & TFTC.

Cheers,

Remarkable timing as we arrived just before 6:30pm and saw the train arrive. Great spot and some time was spent looking around the immediate area, very cool.
TFTC

found this one with tofska,Moneydork and ADV

Team GPS.org.nz Cache Raid: Classic station! It's great that it's kept so well. We arrived at 6:30pm, just as the train was departing. T4TC, M@

Wow - what a cool old railway station. Loved the jiggers.

heading north

Barcoo and Ben

Easy find, 4th for the Day. Took Dragon
Thanks

Easy find. Could be easily found by kids. Thanks for the cache. Left a friend.

This was a very easy find because the cache had been muggled and left smashed in the car park. The caretaker of the Museum noticed us and asked if we were geocachers. He knew where the cache had been hidden and said that kids had caused some trouble at the site the previous night. They had muggled the cache and taken whatever coins were in the container. Luckily we had a small camo'd sistema with us which we used as a replacement cache and put back in the original location. Maybe worth the owner considering a new location as the kids know where it is for further raids.

Had a look around the museum before finding the cache. Love the history here.
Left a USA Quarter Dollar - New Hampshire version.

nice easy find tftc

12.05pm. Quick find. Our second in Australia. Hoping for a few more. Thank you. David and Noeline

A lot of interesting pieces of rail machinery here
TNLN
Thanx

find love the location TNLN

14:30
Visited while on our return trip to Bendigo. The ultimate in drive-by’s. There is only one other cache that we have seen that I would put in this cache's class as far as drive-by's go.

TNLN..SL TFTH Armidillo

The last time I was at this station was when Her Majesty visited Armidale & we students were given the day off to say hello. Travelled from Tenterfield on a track long since closed. No one about so a quick grab. Thanks.

An easy find with Max and Bev. TNLN. Thanks.

Good spot for a cache. I didn't take anything but left an Australian 20 cent piece.

Found on my return trip from the Brisbane national square dance convention I was lucky with this one as the curator of the museum is opening up he was very interested in the trains as was happy to let me have a wonder through the museum he even got some of the old trolley carts out for me to have a look at I told him what I was up to and he said he would keep an eye out for anyone he sees looking about. Thanks for the hide

Took the time to have a bit of a look through the outside exibets of the museum. Lots to see and we could have taken much more time.
Thanks again.

Sixth for the day and cache two hundred and fifty-seven on day ten of our Brisvegas trip, the cache was found at 1420 in the company of chewinprickles on our way home.
A great piece of railway history and a great looking station, we had no trouble finding the cache. Thanks Armidillo for the cache.

Some fascinating old stuff in there, cache completely uncovered, an easy find.

Easy find.
Cache was uncovered and wet!
Took: Poker Chip.
Left: 1922 Penny
Replaced cache and made sure that it was covered and out of sight.

Thanks Armidillo

Before we left Hungary I was thinking what to bring for peresents for the caches ( I cannot make TNLN as Lili only five years old, she always find something to take), so I decided to bring some Hungarian coins. What a perfect choice!
bolyak and Lili from Hungary

Found by Outlaw & Panning

Took frog (because it was so cool)
Left poker chip

1605 Out shopping in Armidale with Mrs C and friend, so thought we could drop the station on the way to Guyra. Sorry I didn't have any foreign currency on me (may be able to bring some another time), so left a stretchy frog.
TFTC
The only TB that would have fitted was the Shell Travel Bug from Bargara Beach; so will give it a little bit more mileage

Found easily. Didnt have any coins on me but I have quite a few foreign coins at home for just such an occasion. Will deposit a few on a driveby soon. TFTC

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