Re: (NSW) City Circle

["Skippy" <fowler9@skippy9.fsnet.co.uk>]

Russell Norton <russelln@iprimus.com.au> wrote in message
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> 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$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk...
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> > >> Bill McNiven <wmcniven@gunzel.ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
> > >> l0ha5.32735$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
> > >

I remeber that incident now but I seem to remeber seeing an 86 or 85 on the
main south after that (after it had been cleared that is). I didn't have my
camera & can't be sure from the distance (roughly 1km) away. Coulda been an
80 or 81.


Skippy


> > >
> > >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..
>
>