Re: Boronia Open day report

Roderick Smith (rodsmith@werple.net.au)
12 Apr 1998 12:26:31 GMT

Sideways shifting is standard practice. This is how Canterbury was built;
there was an interim period with one track at each level. It also how
cuttings at Avenel and at Stawell were lowered.
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Regards
Roderick Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

Craig Haber <albatross@harnessnet.com.au> wrote in article > Does anyone recall how it was done at Watsonia? The project was > similar, completed in 1979 it saw the line altered to go under Watsonia > road, with a new island platform for Watsonia station in the cutting, > then a long cutting carrying the line under Grimshaw Street. At the > same time, the line was duplicated. I must have travelled over it when > it was single line, but as I was only 4 years old when the grade > separated line was opened, I have no recollection of the single track.