Re: [NSW] Gauntlet Track

["Graeme Cleak" <gcleak@optusnet.com.au>]

  There was also gauntlet track on the Manly Tramways, where the Narrabeen
Line crossed over Curl Curl Lagoon in Pittwater Rd, just beyond Manly Depot.


Graeme Cleak.


Barry Campbell <campblbm@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> 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
>
>