Re: Ballarat to Ararat line status.

["Roderick Smith" <rodsmith@werple.net.au>]

In the early days the siding was used for tests with Sprinters
(conductivity problems, not triggering track circuits for level crossing
protection).  Since then, all level-crossing protection has been removed. 
There was talk by WCR of running a tourist operation with steam, subject to
a track being connected into Ararat station.  The stumbling block here was
the on-the-cheap bridge replacement at the up end: designed for a single
(sg) track.  Ballast is loaded at a siding on the former Skipton line
alignment at Linton Jn.
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Regards
Roderick Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

MarkBau1 <markbau1@aol.com> wrote in article 
> Does anything ever run out there? A once in a blue moon movement to
Windermere
> for ballast perhaps?? Any talk of a tourist operator?