Re: UPFIELD LINE ALTERATIONS
Leslie Brown (pcc@ocean.com.au)
Tue, 03 Feb 1998 14:26:20 GMT
bevans@omni.com.au (Brian Evans) wrote in aus.rail:
>
>My understanding was historically there indeed existed a line between
>broadmeadows station (down side) which went east across the back of the camp
>road military barracks and connected to the upfield line just north of camp
>road. The reservation is certainly there in the broadmeadows area.
>
>Does anyone have any further information?
>
Having travelled on that line/siding to the army base in 1968, I have
neither seen physical evidence of nor any historical proof that it
continued on. That is not to say that it never did happen, but all the
evidence I have seen, apart from the need to build such a line in the
first place, would not support a connection to the Upfield line. The
line to the base would have been built sometime around WW2.
Les Brown.