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Re: Maps



mccallum@melbpc.org.au (John McCallum) wrote:

>In article <paul-0809971543080001@itsnot.its.unimelb.edu.au>,
>   paul@itsnot.its.unimelb.edu.au (Paul Edwards) wrote:

>>I was out riding my bike along the Epping line on Saturday, when I came
>>across what appeared to be a reservation just north of Regent railway
>>station, running in a south west direction from the existing line. Was
>>this an old goods route, or a branch line of some sort? A quick (and, I
>>suspect, highly inaccurate ;-) check on the Melway did not show any
>>reservation, however by my estimation if the reserve continued for any
>>distance, the railway would have ended up in Coburg cemetery.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Paul
>>
>From your description, what you have described would be the Yan Tean Pipe 
>Track which continues SSW to join St Georges Road. As the name suggests, this 
>contains the pipes from Yan yean Reservoir from the reservoirs near Reservoir 
>(hence the name) towards Melbourne. Where the pipes go when they get to the 
>Merri Creek I do not know.

This pipeline has a construction tramway running along it, so that the
supposition that it was an old rail formation would be right.

Geoff Lambert