Re: Whats left of Cook.

["Kym Columbine" <KymColumbine@bigpond.com>]

It was there in 1994 when I was there.

Kym

deano wrote in message
>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
>>
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