Re: Dumb Tram Kweschun

[davemcl@REMOVEiprolink.co.nz (David McLoughlin)]

"Michael Walker" <walker@hotkey.net.au> wrote:

> >> then three
> >
> >South Melbourne line over St Kilda LRT
> >St Kilda LRT over Albert Rd.
> >The Preston HUMP over the workshop test track
> >
> >> now there are probably only two.
> >
> >South Melbourne line over St Kilda LRT
> >St Kilda LRT over Albert Rd.
> >
> Having gone past there on the train three times this week, I can assure you
> the workshop track is still there going under the hump. 

>The original question was crossing tram "lines", not crossing tram
>"tracks", so the status of the Preston test track is probably somewhat
>academic in any case, as the test track isn't a "line".


A "track" can be a line.

I can talk about "tram tracks" or "tram lines" and railway tracks" and
"railway lines" and in each case mean the steel rails the vehicles run
on, not Route Number 96.

In any case the Hump is the only other example that fits the question.
Once the Sydney system closed, there were no tramlines crossing
tramlines until the St Kilda line was converted to trams, and the test
track under the Hump was the only other contemporanous example of a
track crossing another.

Nobody has offered any other example. I have looked at my recent maps
of the Melbourne system and there is no other "third" such crossing.

David McLoughlin
Auckland New Zealand

"Oh my god, they’ve killed Kenny!"