Re: [NSW] Gauntlet Track

["MattyQ" <mattyq1009@dingoblue.net.au>]

David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
394CE1BB.C7301E11@ozemail.com.au">news:394CE1BB.C7301E11@ozemail.com.au...
> Paul Jones wrote:
>
> > There is some of this track in the hunter valley on the coal lines
somewhere
> > near Taro or Brersefield I think it was.
> >
> > Anyway, what is the purpose of this type of track? seems like a waste of
> > time to me.
>
> Only trains being weighed use the turnout track.  Trains not being weighed
can
> go through on the main line at full track speed.

Isn't there one of these around the Clyde area too? Is it still in use?


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Matt Smith
Brisbane Australia.

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