Re: Clyde Yard

["Ben Staples" <BenKim@bigpond.com>]

There was a line recently removed from Clyde, this being one owned by Rail
Services Australia. Evidently, it was a section of track Rail Services
Australia didn't want to maintain.

Ben Staples


David & Julie Donald wrote in message <35B27D82.4C316C2C@hermes.net.au>...
>Further to my recent posting on Clyde yard, the reader who noted that there
was
>a "new" fence situated in what, IIRC, was being called "the paddock" ids
>correct, but it has been there for some weeks now.  The other point is the
>apparent amount of track maintenance and general trackwork that has been
>undertaken in/about Clyde yard in recent months.  Of significance is that
some
>roads have been removed, some have been partially upgraded, whilst there
has
>been some use of steel sleepers (especially in what I believe was called
"the
>pole yard", on the western side of the creek, behind Clyde station).
>It often seems a good bet that whenever work is being undertaken there is
every
>likelihood that something more dramatic is going to occur.  This could well
be
>another case in point, though I cannot remember any suggestions that Clyde
was
>to close given the number of industries in the area.
>
>Indeed, the suggestions have been that Clyde was going to be upgraded, and
this
>may indeed be what is happening, into a full container terminal (remember
that
>FreightCorp now has a number of contracts to haul container traffic from
both
>Sandown and Yennora to Port Botany).  There has been some talk that a
second
>terminal was to be built at St Marys, probably on the former Rope's Creek
line,
>given the amount of industrial activity in the St Marys - Blacktown area.
>--
>
>Regards
>
>David Donald
>Springwood, NSW
>
>dsjmd@hermes.net.au
>
>
>