Re: More Gauntlet Track

["Derick Wuen" <cullend@webone.com.au>]

Graeme Cleak wrote in message
<394f66d7$0$17005$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au>...
>I mean real gauntlet track.  The original single line crossed on a narrow
>wooden bridge, and when the line was duplicated in December 1913, "they"
>wished to avoid building another bridge so the down and up tracks were
>interlaced, and treated as single line with staff working in the best NSW
>Govt Tramways style.
>
>For further reading see The Manly Lines, produced by Transit Press in 1995.
>
>
>Graeme Cleak.
>
>
>MiCRiC <slagel@senet.com.au> wrote in message
>news:394F2303.6A3E00F4@senet.com.au...
>> By gauntlet track do you mean bonded track?
>>
>> micric
>>
>> Graeme Cleak wrote:
>> >
>> > There was also gauntlet track on the Manly Tramways, on the Narrabeen
>Line,
>> > where Pittwater Rd crosses Curl Curl Lagoon, just beyond Manly Depot.
>> >
>> > Graeme Cleak.
>
Was the track over the "single" track Hunter R. bridge at Singleton
gauntleted? (Before the bridge was rebuilt that is.) The track was double
either side.