Mystery railway track between Helensburgh and Otford.

Peter Ho (johnspare@ozemail.com.au)
Mon, 12 May 1997 00:54:16 +1000

What is the purpose of the one railway track which turns out from
Helensburgh from the main Illawarra/South Coast railway line and then
crosses the bridge on top of the main Illawarra/South Coast railway line
as follows:

From Otford

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// grey steel bridge

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ramp // || ||

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turnout \X| ||

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>From Helensburgh|| ||To Helensburgh

Where does the mystery track led to? And I sometimes seen Lithgow to
Port Kembla coal train use the mystery track.

And sometimes I seen one or two locomotives pulling the 32 coal trains
and the other locomotive pushing at the end, is it a normal practice as
opposed to having two or three locomotives pulling 32 coal trains,
because I once seen then running past Stanwell Park station towards
Wollongong.

Thank you for your help, especially on the signalling question that I
posted last Saturday 3/5/97 which the responses to it has help me a lot.

Peter Ho