Re: [Vic] Alamein Line

["BJ" <macgunzal@REMOVEbigpond.com>]

Oops! Keep confusing Hughesdale & Huntingdale!!!


andrei wrote in message <8cr51p$1dea$1@news1.wire.net.au>...
>You didn't answer the question.  Must have been a bridge.  (Probably wooden
>trestle, that's why it's no longer there. I think line was closed last
>century, so 100 years has seen the bridge go.  Also, line ran to
Hughesdale,
>not Huntingdale.
>Andrei
>truck driver, train watcher, resident of Hughesdale.
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>BJ wrote in message ...
>>The line used to extend to Huntingdale in the original days - possibly
>>before the golf course was there. At the northern end, the line passed
>under
>>the Ringwood line and continued through Kew to the Chandler Highway. The
>>bridge over the Yarra beside the APM mills was the old railway bridge - it
>>then connected to the Hurstbridge line at Fairfield. Check the Melways and
>>you can see the old alignment which is now predominately a walking
reserve.
>>
>>
>>David & Denise Cooper wrote in message
>><38edb035$0$6530@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au>...
>>>"rossnal" <rossnal@mail.teksupport.net.au> wrote in message
>>>38EDA228.57E2BF68@mail.teksupport.net.au">news:38EDA228.57E2BF68@mail.teksupport.net.au...
>>>> Does anyone know why the overhead wiring for the Alamein line continues
>>>> past Alamein to a point just north of the Malvern Valley Golf Course?
>>>>
>>>> Was this done back in the 40's when the line was extended from
Ashburton
>>>> to Alamein, with the thought of continuing the line further or was the
>>>> wiring put up prior to the Ashburton - Alamein section was reopened
when
>>>> the disused track was still in existance from the Outer Circle days?
>>>>
>>>> If this is the case has a train ever reached the current end of the
>>>> overhead wiring using electric motive power?
>>>>
>>>> Ross
>>>
>>>Another question - is this the same right of way as the outer circle? If
>>so,
>>>how did the line continue across the golf course? It ends on the edge of
>>the
>>>bank with no sign of a bridge or something to continue on.
>>>
>>>David C
>>>
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