Re: [NSW] Martin Place station and also old lines.

[David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>]

maikha_l@hotmail.com wrote:

> My second Q is on past railway lines.
> I've always been curious 'bout them. Ropes Creek I live near and know
> still exists so I'll leave that one but what about the old Camellia to
> Sandown line?
>
> This line has three stations (Hardies, Goodyears and Sandown) and
> extneds just behind Rosehill Racecourse. Is there any history on that
> line,

Yes.

> I do know Red Rattlers use to go along that line, and that the
> following 3 stations were industrial.
>
> (By the way one of yours have an image of a few Tangara's on that line
> in 1991 I think for the "Golden Slipper")

That would be me.

> My second query is the Warwick Farm Racecourse line.

Third.

> That was closed in
> 1991, is it still there?

No.

> SETS ran a tour there last Saturday.
> I'm sure the crossing is gone but the line itself and also the platform
> at Warwick Farm Racecourse, are they there?

There is no evidence of its existance from the main line to the Hume
Highway.  The signal box at the junction was hit by arsonists and burnt to
the ground.

> and my last one is the Rockwood Cemetary line

Rookwood

> (Not quite the Cityrail
> netowrk). Any 'evidence' of it still exist today?

Just the "Cemetery Siding" at Lidcombe.

> and yes SETS ran a
> tour there as well also on last Saturday.
> Does it run on a sort of "Loop"?

No.

> I was noted that there is a siding at
> Lidcombe in-front of Platform 1,

4

> that's the length of an 8car set, use
> to be the line for rockwood.

Yes.

> But pity that line ain't electrified because we can't divert trains
> through there in the case of trackwork!

The siding is electrified.  Where the tracks all separate near the Goods
junctions was where Rookwood station used to be on the main lines.

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David Johnson
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