Re: Woomera spur line revisited.

["Chris Drymalik" <drymalik@arcom.com.au>]

"Tell" <telljb@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> The branch to Woomera has been torn up since my last
> inspection some years ago.
AN removed some of the rail a fair way back. Also the Woomera line was
officially a siding. It never was a line in its own right. The actual rail
was owned by the Dept of Defence.

> However a long section of the branch line still remains
> which ends some 1-point-something or other Kms north of
> Pimba in a dirt mound "buffer stop".
>
> I was unable to revisit the old Woomera station because
> of a gate and checkpoint built across the road to the
> old station which has sprung up since the flood of the
> so called "refugees".!
When I was there about 6 or 7 years ago the platform was still in existence,
but it was very  overgrown with grass.