Re: Gheringhap- Maroona was: Riggs Creek Smash

["Stephen Devenish" <johnnyr@bigpond.com>]

If I remember correctly most of the sidings were kept during the regauge.
Cressy lucked out as it had the two turnouts in a strange arrangement with a
loop having both a left hand and a right hand turnout for trailing moves in
either direction.  The tracks were slewed into a straight alignment and the
siding removed.

The following sidings are still around:

Gheringhap (Passing loop (SG) and Siding (BG))

Inverleigh Siding (We have used it for ballast loading and concrete sleeper
loading)

Wingeel - Loop

Cressy - REMOVED

Berrybank - (Loop and siding)

Lismore ?? I think it is still in service as a siding

Derrinallum ?? I think it is still in service as a siding

Vite Vite - Old siding removed and new loop built

Pura Pura - ?? I think it is still in service as a siding

Westmere - Siding in service

Mininera - Siding in service

Tatyoon - (Loop and Siding)

Maroona - (Loop and Siding)

This is just from memory and if I'm incorrect sorry, its been a while since
I walked track up that way.


Hope it helps

Stephen Devenish
John Holland Rail


Michael Wierzbinski <wizzer1865@NOSPAMoptusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> > [snip]
> >
> > > The other stations  between Gheringhap and Maroona which used to have
> > > sidings in the BG days were Cressy,Westmere and Pura Pura.
> > > As they all had wheat silos , I presume that they are still there ,
> > > although the sidings may not be.
> >
> > I remember Pura Pura being a crossing loop from a SG Overland journey -
> they
> > probably all are crossing loops.
> >
> > Anyone else care to fill in details?
> >
> > Arthur.
>
> I travelled through Cressy the other by car and I don't recall it still
> having a
> siding, it certainly doesn't have a station building anymore, it has
> certainly gone
> full circle :-( . Westmere has a siding which is still used. Can't comment
> on the rest, didn't stop to look :-)
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