Re: Boronia Rail Crossing

[L & D <daisyw@ozemail.com.au>]

Christopher_Martin GORDON wrote:

> : This Sunday (25th October) the Boronia Rail crossing project will be open
> : to the public from 11am - 3pm
>
> I went to Boronia today and had a look, it is coming along nicely now, they
> have most track down, and overhead up.
>
> Next weekend the last train (Friday Night) will use the level crossing and
> then for the next four days the railway will be closed between Bayswater and
> Ferntree Gully.  (Cup Day on the Tuesday)
> Durning those 4 days they will connect the new station by removing about 12000
> cubic metres of dirt laying 150m track, ripping up about 300m track installing
> overhead, testing signals, installing Metcard machines, validators etc.
>
> Then the first train on Wednesday Morning will use the new station.
>
> After then they will spend the next 3-4 months removing the old station,
>

The old station!!! how old is it ?????

> roadworks to fix the stuffed Dorset/Boronia road intersection (which has the
> railway through the middle), building a 'modal interchange' and car park.
>
> All to be finished by Feburary 1999, costing $28 million.
>
> --
> Chris Gordon
> http://www.ecr.mu.oz.au/~cmgord