Re: Port Kembla breakwater railway

["Chris Stratton" <stratton.chris.cp@bhp.com.au>]

I assume you mean the south breakwater. I will look up some books tonight
and try to find some info. I suspect it would have been operated by the PWD
as they used to handle all the jetty shunting. The site where their depot
was is near the quarry that is currently the Wollongong building refuse
dump. I think this quarry supplied rock for the breakwaters.
Regards,
-- 
Chris Stratton
Wollongong, NSW, Australia
stratton.chris.cp@bhp.com.au   

Any opinions are all my own work.

David Proctor <daproc@bigfoot.com> wrote in article
<01bd0dd4$d474e3a0$014a23cb@locxvcym>...
> With 3 hours to kill at Port Kembla last night (from 0105 till 0353) I
went
> for a walk along the breakwater, and disvovered that there are rails laid
> into it (including a 130m long crossing loop from 690m to 820m) -
> presumably laid to facilitate carrying the large concrete blocks that
form
> the breakwater.
> 
> The rails are laid to 1435mm (standard gauge).
> 
> Does anybody know anything of this line? Was it ever connected to the
main
> system? When was it last used? (it is currently out of use, as some of
the
> rails are concreted over, etc.)
> 
> David Proctor
> daproc@bigfoot.com
>