Re: railway sign?

[Hunslet <hunslet@cia.com.au>]

Ronald BESDANSKY wrote:

> A sign placed at the limit of working (due to clearance issues) for
> Interurban double-deck stock?? Was there any section of line in February,
> 1972 over which, say, single-deck interurbans (all silver) could operate,
> but not double-deck interurbans (Blue stripes on a grey front - Blue
> goose"!)

Yes - originally, the double deck cars could not operate beyond Mount Victoria
into Lithgow.   It was necessary to lower the rail tracks through the "rats
holes" (the ten tunnels between Newnes Junction and Lithgow).   Don't ask me
when that was, I can't remember, but possibly in the mid 1970s.

Hunslet.