Re: Dudley Street Daylighted

[cmgord@ecr.mu.oz.au (Christopher_Martin GORDON)]

: This happened last weekend, but as no-one has reported it on the NG, I
: thought I'd post this message.

: All bridges no longer in use by rail (ie the ex-Melbourne Yard leads)
: that covered Dudley Street, West Melbourne were removed over the
: weekend of 17-18 April 1999.   The spans covering the south and
: central carriageway have been removed, but the spans covering the
: northern carriageway of Dudley Street are still intact (for the time
: being anyway, and there are no notices of impending road closures).

And the report on La Trobe Street Bridge?

The first two spans are up, covering the carrage sidings.  Now just
the country lines, surban lines, and a bit of land to cover.

And then there is the new footbrdige near Richmond (between the other
two footbridges) uprights are up now.

As for the #70 tram line the overhead poles are all in, and now some
horizontal arms put on some of them.

And Exhibition Street, Bourke Street bridges.

A grand total of four new Bridges being built over the railway lines,
in Melbourne.  Anyone would think it is to escape the CDB.

Nice to know that the two road bridges are both going to have trams.



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Chris Gordon
http://www.ecr.mu.oz.au/~cmgord