Re: Kilmore Pioneer Quarry Train (Vic.)

[krel4203@netconnect.com.au (Krel )]

On Sun, 4 Jul 1999 09:19:01 +1000, "Rod" <berlina@bigpond.com> wrote:
>> BTW the livestock
>>siding at
>>Traralgon - known as Traralgon Livestock Siding - was used for cement
>>discharge
>>for quite a few years and thus there is clearly a precedent for not
>>renaming a
>>siding just because the company has changed hands or the use for the siding
>>has
>>changed.
>
>hence the "Coal Road" and the "exchange sidings" at Albury RS
>also the "Coal Siding" at Wodonga which contains the "gantry" and the "Bogie
>exchange"
>sorry, but it seems that it is common practice!

In Albury the New Yard opened in 1943!! And 3 car road is between 4
and 5 roads 'cos the south end of 4 and 5 roads used to be 1 and 2 car
roads (with carriage shed).

Cresco siding near long Island is yet anotherexample ofa siding
changing owners bur not changing names. The scrap steel facility is
run by Transwest for BHP but still called Cresco.

Cheers

Krel

Steamfreight 99 at Victorian Goldfields Railway - July 17-18 1999.

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