Re: [Trams] Grand Unions in Australasia

["Johann Fan" <jyf@optusnet.com.au>]

Daniel Bowen <dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au> wrote in message
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> "David McLoughlin" <davemcl@NO***damned***SPAMiprolink.co.nz> wrote in
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> > I gather Balaclava Junction remains as a grand union because of the
> > Victorian National Trust, the same body which has ensured several
> > hundred W-class trams are rotting away in places like the old Newport
> > workshops rather than running in places which would like to run them.
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> I don't know if the National Trust was involved with the grand union, but
I
> certainly remember a story in the local paper (I live about 2km from
> Balaclava Junction) with Alan Brown saying it would be retained for
heritage
> reasons.
>
> By my calculations, every curve except the N to E pair is used, anyway.

Does the junction have autopoints installed for all movements? Hate to do a
reconstruction of that junction =)

cheers
Johann