Re: Carfloats...?...

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

Unfortunatel;y no.

Only AUS rail on water vehicles I know are

1. Clarence R, Grafton NSW. Train Ferries Swallow and Induna, see RTM
Roundhouse articles by Bremer.

2. Sydney Trams. Punt across Spit (middle Harbour).

Both only in use for stock transfer, not Passenger transfer.

Both replaced by movable span bridges.

But there should have been a Sydney equivalent to NY Xharb.... shunting
Cockatoo dock, Berry's bay and Garden Is..

cheers

Simon King wrote in message <8lrnai$1bqb$1@news.interpacket.net>...
>Having just read the article in the July 2000 issue of Trains Magazine
about
>the New York Cross Harbor railway, I was wondereing if there are any
similar
>operations in Australia, or have been in the past?
>
>For those who have not seen the article, this operation is essentually a
>rail link across New York harbor involving loading rail wagons onto a car
>float to transport them accross the stretch of water.
>
>yours,
>
>Simon King
>Wangara Grains - Grain Production, Storage and Sales
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