Re: (NSW) City Circle

["Russell Norton" <russelln@iprimus.com.au>]

Matthew Geier <matthew@mail.usyd.edu.au> wrote in message
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> In article <396bfe9c@news.iprimus.com.au>,
> Russell Norton <russelln@iprimus.com.au> wrote:
> >
> >Skippy <fowler9@skippy9.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
> >8kd1sk$5k3$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk">news:8kd1sk$5k3$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk...
> >>
> >> Bill McNiven <wmcniven@gunzel.ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
> >> l0ha5.32735$N4.1270489@ozemail.com.au">news:l0ha5.32735$N4.1270489@ozemail.com.au...
> >> > David Bromage wrote in message ...
> >> > >Macarthur - Glenlee Junction will be about 145 years if Speedrail
goes
> >> > >ahead.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Huh?  It's been electrified since 1968!  (Even if it's currently a
> >disused
> >> > electrification).
> >>
> >> Since when. Must've been in the last 2 years as there was still 86's
> >running
> >> into Glenlee in 1998
> >
> >
> >It became disused when a FreightCorp coalie tipped over and took out half
> >the overhead. The overhead was just strung back up to get it out of the
way.
> >It is not currently (or likely ever) useable.
>
>  There is a section near where the highway crosses over the railway where
for
> about 2 or 3 masts the catenary and contact wires are tied to the mast
with
> a piece of rope. Direct short to earth as well as being seriously out of
> alignment!.
>
>  Been like that for ages, 2 years ?

Not quite, GL32 tipped over on 20th December '98, so it has been out of
commision since then.

Lucky for me & my mate (on 7BM4 going the other way) that we weren't running
5 minutes earlier, or we would have smashed into the wreckage.

Russ..