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

["Rjaygee" <dartmouthmotel@bigpond.com>]

The original goods sidings where the ones I was talking about.  The siding
on the up end of Epping has not been used since a bad order freight car was
placed in there about 3 years ago. As you quite rightly say the permanent
way siding on the down side is often used for track machines. A long time
local told me there was a cement silo at Epping also in the goods yard
Cheers
Rod Gayford

"Eddie Oliver" <eoliver@efs.mq.edu.au> wrote in message
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> 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.