Re: YET MORE TRIVIA

["Ron BEST" <ronbest@bigpond.com>]

Crossings between different systems you would expect to be fairly common.
But much rarer within a system....
However, it's my party so.... You can include crossings between different
systems! (Isn't that kind of me!) (You can even include different modes, if
you like - that will spawn a whole new thread, I think!!)

Rgds
Ron BEST
Roderick Smith wrote in message <01be5fec$eaf81500$a22d11cb@rodsmith>...
>Aha,
>so Ron has ruled out the former Richmond Vale with NSWR and all of the
>sugar railway with QR ones.
>
>When Mt Newman and Gldsworthy were separate, they crossed.  AFAIK the
>layout at the junction was altered with the merger, so that Goldsworthy
>trains curve to junction into the Newman line, then junction away again.
>
>QR has/hed several crossings as described, mainly at tricky junctions:
>The entry to Townsville.
>Theebine.
>The former departure from Roma St pfm 2 to the Normanby loop.
>Greenvale line and North Coast line.
>North end of Rockhampton station.
>
>CR had a few at Stirling North (Leigh Creek to powerhouse crossing Port
>Pirie - Perth), Pichi Richi - Port Augusta crossing Port Pirie - Leigh
>Creek).
>
>--
>Regards
>Roderick Smith
>Rail News Victoria Editor
>
>Ron BEST <ronbest@bigpond.com> wrote in article
>> Where in Australia do railway tracks of the same system cross at an angle
>> approaching a right angle? (I.e., not like in a scissors crossover)
>