Re: Comments/corrections - VR map

[John Cleverdon <johnc@cdi.com.au>]

Les Brown wrote:

> John Cleverdon <johnc@cdi.com.au> wrote in aus.rail:
>
> >Frank Jones wrote:
> >
> ><snip>
> >
> >> 6. There is a 'Murie' just before Walhalla - it doesn't have a 'dot'
> >> and doesn't show in my 1927 Grades book (although it might have
> >> existed before then).
> >
> >I don't know of any station called "Murie" ever being in that area,
> >although Walhalla Goldfields Railway now have the Happy Creek station in
> >that area.
>
> The Late Edward Downs in "Speed Limit 20" (page 111) refers to a
> passenger halt called "Murie". According to the book, it was adjacent
> to the Long Tunnel Company's siding. When Long Tunnel Co. ceased
> trading after WW1 broke out, Murie and presumably the Long Tunnel
> Co.'s siding, was renamed "Knott's Siding in 1915.
>

Sorry! I was wrong, but I was looking at the wrong area; from the map, I
assumed Murie to be between Thomson and Walhalla, when in fact in was btwn
Platina and Erica.

>
> I think you should have a "Knott's Siding" in your Gradients Book. I'm
> fortunate enough to have a 1921 rail map (knicked from Plat 1, Spencer
> Street in 1968. It was underneath a 1926 map, which was underneath a
> 1938 map, which was underneath a 1952 map which was underneath a 1965
> map. We left the 1965 map there). "Knotts S" is marked there, no dot -
> just a bar across the line, at the 100 + 1/4 mile mark. Not many other
> places on the map had just a bar. Those mining sidings at Langi Logan
> had them also.
>
> Les Brown

John
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