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RE: Sightings: Wednesday 26/01

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Eddie:   Looks like we had my directions mixed - the loop concerned would actually be south. If a train stays on the line from Coota West, it goes through the centre road between the platform loops - this track carries straight on to become the line to Forbes / Parkes.  If the train is heading to Temora, it will take the south side loop:  i.e. turn left off the centre track as it enters Stockinbingal yard. David Langley's e-mail best describes what happens.  David wrote:

>>>   Observation at Stockinbingal on occasions shows that down trains are brought into the remaining platform (formerly the up platform) via a hand signal or flag, in order to perform the safeworking requirements and then despatched to their correct line. I don't know what happens if Stock. is unattended but I think that that is rare anyway.<<<
Pretty sure that both platforms still exist.

Melanie Dennis & Gerardus Mol
Australian Steam Group
meld.asg@netspeed.com.au
   
-----Original Message-----
From:	Eddie Oliver [SMTP:eoliver@efs.mq.edu.au]
Sent:	Thursday, January 27, 2000 10:56 PM
To:	Aus loco discussion mailing list
Subject:	Re: Sightings: Wednesday 26/01

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"Melanie J. Dennis" wrote:

> 
> Over at Stockinbingal, NR20 / 106 passed through at 17:15 with a west-bound loaded steel train: attached on the rear were an ex-AN open, RKKY and RKKF empty wagons.  Interestingly, the train was diverted through the eastern loop for the safeworking, before regaining the original track prior to turning north towards Parkes.

Could you clarify this please? What do you mean by the "eastern loop"?

Stockinbingal is laid out in a down-and-up loop arrangement, is it not,
rather than the run-in-both-directions-on-both-tracks arrangement more
common with centrally operated loops?

Eddie Oliver


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