Re: "Day of the Roses"

[me@here.home (Peter Homann)]

On Thu, 22 Oct 1998 21:19:34 +1000, Owen Clancy
<clancy@caboolture.net.au> wrote:

>> bill johnston wrote:
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Has everything been done to reduce the risk of it happening again????
>> > There is plenty of evidence around Melbourne where similar type bridges
>> > have had their center open girder supports surrounded by concrete. Even
>> > some temporary girder supports under the footbridge in what was Flinders
>> > St yard have heavy concrete bases to protect them from train
>> > derailments. A few years ago when last in Sydney I was surprised to
>> > notice some bridges with open girder supports still in existence. Have
>> > these now all been fixed or is the potential for another Granville still
>> > around.
>>
>
>The PTC did some work after Granville to concrete in some steel girder bridges
>like Granville, but only the ones on curved track. An example is the bridge over
>the Illawarra line just north of Tempe. It seemed like tokenism at the time.
>
There's still a few bridges in Adelaide with open stanchions.  One got
hit a couple of years ago by an NR train (at low speed), and all that
caused was road traffic problems while the bridge was closed for
repairs.  That one (Bakewell bridge) had concrete stanchions not
steel, but the effect was the same.  Some of them were replaced with a
solid concrete stanchion, but only the one that got hit (I think).
Cheers,

Peter.