Re: Whats left of Cook.

["deano" <dsma@pigpond.com>]

I don't know if you remember it or not but there used to be a sign beside
the track which proclaimed
"If you're crook come to Cook, our hospital needs your help", last seen in
the 70's
Dave Proctor <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
news:gNAG4.111$TI4.583732@news0.optus.net.au...
> Maurie Daly wrote in message ...
> >On the ABC Flying Doctors show this week,(its a show about the RFDS)
there
> was
> >quite a few shots of Cook (or whats left of it) on the TAR.
> >From a town of over 200 people with shops,a hospital ,a school in the
days
> of
> >AN ,its now down to 2 people and nothing.
> >All the facilities have closed and it looks like a ghost town in the
middle
> of
> >nowhere.
> >The two people left are a lady who sells souveneers twice a week when the
> IP
> >arrives ,and one ganger whose function is to change points when the IP
> >arrives.
> >Strangely the points he was changing had dual control point machines
> installed
> >but had to be manually changed.
> >What wasnt clear was whether any train crews still changed over at Cook
or
> >whether all thru trains had crew cars.
>
> In December 98 they still changed over at Cook - we had an NR train arrive
> while we were there, and the crew were supposed to go back pass on an NR
> train about 7 hours later, so they went back with us on the IP.
>
> Dave
>
>