Re: (NT) Larrimah preservation group?

["Neil Gerace" <geracen@wantree.com.au>]

Tell <telljb@net01.ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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>
> Larrimah became the terminus in the fifties with the
> advent of the CO-ORD road rail service.  Only several
> hundred metres of the old line to Birdum were used to
> enable loco's to turn on the triangle and load cattle
> at the southern end of the Larrimah yards.
>
> All of the line remained intact to Birdum and I
> traveled alongside some years after the NAR closed and
> sections of it were in good condition but there were
> dodgy bits.  Some of the steel sleepers were showing
> signs of corrosion.  The line lay unused for years and
> is located in substantial rainfall country, so I guess
> there had to be problems whatever the axle loading.

Let's hope the You Know What Railway That's Been Proposed More Times Than
the Channel Tunnel doesn't completely obliterate large sections of the NAR
when it is finally built. I read in Engineers Australia that 150 km of the
NAR alignment will be used, presumably meaning the old track will be
disappeared. Anyone know *which* 150km? Hope it doesn't include Larrimah -
Birdum. Not that I've ever been there, but it would be nice to at least
preserve whatever is still there. In EA there was a picture of a munitions
dump somewhere beside the NAR. I hope things like that don't vanish before I
have a chance to see the NAR.

cheers
Neil
Perth