Re: bombala line

[dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)]

Notagunzel (notagunzel@bigfoot.com) wrote:
: David Bromage <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote in message
: xlL44.23$991.648087@news0.optus.net.au">news:xlL44.23$991.648087@news0.optus.net.au...

: > That's still better than the Forsayth line. As recently as 1992, much of
: > it beyond Almaden was laid with 45lb rail on half round sleepers put in as
: > a wartime economy!

: Still lots of featherweight rail, but the curves have been 1 in 4 steel
: resleepered.

: It's only got a tiddly little RM running on it now, but the crew recently
: reckoned that the track is in better condition now than when the Mixed was
: running.

: Was it 45lb or 42 lb rail????

The driver told me 45lb rail.

Cheers
David