Re: [NSW] Open and Closed goods/freight yard

[Eddie Oliver <eoliver@efs.mq.edu.au>]

Brendan wrote:
> 
> There are two sidings in Epping
> 
> One at the south end of the platform, about 50 metres past the road bridge.
> I havent seen this used.

It was labelled as a refuge, but is only used in practice for detaching
defective vehicles and the occasional track machine

> One at the north end of the platform, on the down non-main line (what is the
> term for those?)

down suburban line

> about 400 metres past the station, which is actually still
> in use (when there is track maintainance) by the various machines that fix
> the rails, and as a makeshift "catch points".

It isn't makeshift catch points, it's a quite deliberate runoff - the
points came first, and then someone realised that there was space for
the siding to be properly used as a track machine siding.

The original goods facilities at Epping were in that general vicinity
(but rather to the south) and were a casualty of the track realignments
probably 15 years ago.