Re: "Whitton" type trestle near Old Junee

["Derick Wuen" <cullend@webone.com.au>]

Thanks for this.

A question about Whitton trestles and your measurements (not that it matters
all that much).

In many documents they are referred to as "24 foot ballast top openings",
with the 24 foot denoting "span". Ever since I measured a 7 span version at
Michelago (with imprecise measuring gear) I have been convinced that it was
in fact a 25 foot "span", centre to centre, leaving 24 foot clear span
between footings after allowing for the thickness of the vertical timbers.

You now have 26 foot spans halved to 13 feet.

Deane style trestles seem to stick with the 24/clear-25/centre maximum span.

Comments?

Lambing Flat wrote in message <3A9C638C.B95B0C09@cia.com.au>...
>I have just added another section to the Lambing Flat page.
>
>It is an Archival Recording of the "Whitton" style trestle that up till
>about last week, carried the Junee to Narrandera line over Houlaghans
>Creek near Old Junee.  For the benifit of overseas readers, this line is
>in NSW, Australia.
>
>It can be accessed via the Lambing Flat main page, address below, or
>entered direct at
>http://www.geocities.com/james_mcinerney2000/index.htm
>
>About time I did that stock wagon article too, isn't it! :-)
>
>--
>DPC James McInerney
>
>STOP!  In The Name Of The Lore!
>
>At http://www.cia.com.au/bullack/ , "Lambing Flat's" mainpage for the HO
>model and NSWGR information.
>Or http://www.cia.com.au/bullack/rvrtitle.html  for the "Rurr Valley
>Railway", my G gauge garden line
>
>