Re: Dombarton to Maldon

["Dave Proctor" <david@sd3.mailbank.com>]

"Bradley Torr" <truenorth@one.net.au.SPAMTRAP> wrote in message
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> Chris Downs <cvdowns@ozemail.com.au> wrote in article
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> > Somone's out to minimise the visiual
> > impact or just saving money on steel?
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> Probably the former. To wit: the NIMBYs in the northern part of KIama
> Municipality who bleated about the visual impact of the overhead wiring
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> the stanchions brought about by the Dapto-Kiama electrification.
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> The stanchions (many of which are already in place) are painted in a
> blue-grey hue, presumably to blend in with the sky.
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> It makes me all feel rather nostalgic for the rust-brown colour of the
> overhead stanchions and gantries seen around Redfern and Central.

Come up to the Blue Mountains, where the stanchions appear to be the
original ones fitted in the late fifties - very brown and very rusted.

Dave