Re: Line beyond......

["Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>]

"Chris Stratton" <stratton.chris.cp@bhp.com.au> wrote in message
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> <maikha_l@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > 2. Also is there a track linking the South Coast line with the Southern
> > Highlands line? If yes do trains run on there?
>
> Yes and Yes. The line is from Unanderra to Moss Vale and is used mainly by
> grain trains, Tahmoor coal trains and NRC limestone trains (and the
Cockatoo
> Run passenger train from Port Kembla to Robertson). Other trains do use it
> on occasions if there is trackwork and been a derailment on the south or
> Illawarra.

There is also an unfinished line from Maldon to Dombarton. Another broken
Carr promise.


> > 3. and last How far is the line electified beyond Macathur and Dapto?
>
> Past Macarthur as far as Glenlee mine

Not to be picky, but it's not actually a mine. Coal came by truck from (I
think) Brimstone Colliery at Oakdale. Glenlee is actually a washery and coal
loader.

>. The electrification to Kiama is supposedly to start
> soon but I will believe it when I see it.

There was a rumour years ago that it would be AC and they'd convert some
Tangaras to AC or dual AC/DC.