Re: Westrail Freight sale

["Rod Young" <freight_man@hotmail.com>]

that will teach me!
I have been keeping most of the Copious numbers of Memos issued,up until
recently, but got sick of it, and now when artc stuff comes through, I read
it and chuck it in the bin. Must have been confused by other posts here,
I rang my Mate who still keeps his memos, and he confirmed you are right,
and added Seymour is listed as 1300 meters
Cheers


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Peter J Ruxton <rucko@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> >
> > Slight confusion on both posts.
> > The loop extensions on the NE,ie between Melb & Junee are 1500 M ,not
1800
> M
> > ,1800 M is reserved to west of Adelaide .
> > Rods list of loops is correct and for interest the rest are
> Gerogery,Yerong
> > Creek and Wagga north of the border.
> > Albury yard was supposed to be extended to 1500 M by lenghening the
> platform
> > road out beyong the road bridge at the northern end,but it hasnt
happened
> for
> > some reason.
> > I cant comment on what trains are what length ,(NRCs SM5 / MS5 is always
> > pretty long but the 1300 M length is what is currently being run on the
> north
> > coast ,due mainly to the lesser number of long loops.
> > Does anyone have an update list of the north coast loops that have been
> > lenghthened?
> > All these loops are 1500 M or more except for Loadstone ,(dunno why ).
>
> Loadstone was only extended to 1500 meters as there was a level crossing
at
> the Northern end and an overbridge at the southern end and the money was
not
> there to either rebuild the bridge for two tracks at the southeren end
where
> there was also problems with the lay of the land and either build a under
or
> over bridge at the northern end. A Level Crossing in the middle of a
> crossing loop is bad news and usally leads to political pressure that it
not
> be blocked so there goes your loop. There were problems with a level
> crossinmg at the loop at Eungai in the Early 90s.
>
> > My last list included Wallarobba,Stroud Road,Bulliac,Killawarra,Johns
> River
> > Telegraph Pt,Kempsey,Melinga,Eungai,Boambee
Beach,Kungala,Grafton,Lawrence
> Rd,
> > Rappville,Casino,Kyogle,Loadstone (1400 M),Glenapp and Bromelton.
> > This list is a bit old and there are bound to be more.
> >
> > MD
> From memory Casino was only about 1600 - 1500 meters to due to site
> constraints, a level Crossing at The Northern end and a bridge at the
> Southern End, though there some possibilities at the southern end I don
not
> think it would add much more than abouy 100 meters
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