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Re: extra Rails?


"FH Eden"
| Tezza

| > They started installing them 5 to 8 years ago in NSW when someone
pointed
| > out to them that it wouldn't cost much as they could use old replaced
| rail.
|
| More like 50 to 80 years ago and probably add another 1 to make it 150 to
| 180 years ago. There were certainly check rails on bridges and other
places
| when I first started walking the tracks in the 1940's.
| And how about the checkrails on points layouts etc?


State Rail published items about it 5 to 8 years ago when they started.
Maybe they'd stopped the practice at some stage in the past.