Re: [NSW] Gauntlet Track

["Barry Campbell" <campblbm@ozemail.com.au>]

David Bennetts wrote in message <394c143f@newshost.pcug.org.au>...
>While looking through neety's most interesting website, I was surprised to
>find a photograph of gauntletted (sometimes known as interlaced) track in
>the tunnel under Broadway, on the former Darling Harbour line, now
>apparently known as the the Powerhouse sidings.  Refer
>www.ozemail.com.au/~neety/trains/powerhouse.html
>
>I would be interested to know whether this is the only example of this
track
>now existing in NSW, and when and why it was constructed. (obviously just a
>few years back ).  I can remember the old Como Bridge too well, and had
>thought that the track on that bridge was the only example in the State,
and
>had disappeared with the replacement higher level bridge being
commissioned.
>
The gauntlet track on the old Darling Harbour line has been there for years.
The reason for its existence was the fact that the DH line was double track
except through the single track tunnel under Broadway. The alternative would
be two sets of points which would need much more maintenance than this sort
of arrangements.

Other than on weighbridges the only examples I can think of are the DH one,
the old Como bridge and the Wallsend Tramline where it passed under a
railway to Old Lambton (?) Colliery in Lambton.


Barry Campbell