Re: Comments/corrections - VR map

["Graeme Sproul" <sproul@dcsi.net.au>]

Hearns Oak:Refer diagram No 2/48
Used to be a signal box at Hearns Oak as it was a Junction for the Yalllourn
line and Morwell line.
Unfortunately the Open cut swallowed things up at a great rate and now its a
crossing loop
Regard
Graeme Sproul
John Duncan McCallum <mccallum@melbpc.org.au> wrote in message
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> John Cleverdon wrote:
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> > AFAIK, the line actually ran Moe - Yallourn - Hernes Oak as a loop,
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> > were not two *seperate* branches.
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> > John
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> There was a Moe to Yallourn branch line. Hernes Oak was/is a crossing
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> in the Moe - Morwell section of the Gippsland line.
> Regarding Yallourn, maybe there was a Yallourn station on the main line
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> it was diverted to enlarge the open cut. I am not sure on this.
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> John McCallum