Re: Dumb Tram Kweschun

["David Philips" <fredal@one.net.au>]

Who the hell is Kenny?
David McLoughlin wrote in message <36d8c53f.1460459@news.iprolink.co.nz>...
>"Michael Walker" <walker@hotkey.net.au> wrote:
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>> >> then three
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>> >South Melbourne line over St Kilda LRT
>> >St Kilda LRT over Albert Rd.
>> >The Preston HUMP over the workshop test track
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>> >> now there are probably only two.
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>> >South Melbourne line over St Kilda LRT
>> >St Kilda LRT over Albert Rd.
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>> 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.
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>>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".
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>A "track" can be a line.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>David McLoughlin
>Auckland New Zealand
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>"Oh my god, they’ve killed Kenny!"
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