Re: Tramline cut in Bowen Bridge Road

["Ross \(Goldie\) Goldspink" <goldicom@powerup.com.au>]

These days day dig out the old road surface for re crushing and re use (and
to keep the greenies happy).

The only end difference will be the result of re profiling for engineering
reasons.

Goldie.


"Barry Campbell" <barryC@qimr.edu.au> wrote in message
news:39592E58.715AD246@qimr.edu.au...
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>
> David McLoughlin wrote:
> >
> > Barry Campbell wrote:
> >
> > > Work on the Inner City Bypass at Herston (In Brisbane for you
southerners)
> > > today involved two trenches being dug through the roadway. The
tramlines are
> > > buried under the road surface and I noticed some lengths of grooved
rail cut
> > > out today.
> >
> > These were used by the Chermside, Stafford, Grange and Kalinga routes.
> > The latter closed in 1963, the rest in 1968.
> >
> > What kind of condition was the track in? When the lines were sealed over
> > there in 1969-70, they were in excellent condition in mass concrete.
> >
> > Interesting to hear how much the roadway has been built up.
> >
> Still in very good condtion in the concrete but there is between 50 and
> 100mm of bitumen over the top. It only takes a couple of resurfacings to
> do this and I wonder how operational tramlines handle this problem.
>
>
> Barry Campbell