Re: New tracks at Port Kembla

["Chris Stratton" <stratton.chris.cp@nospam.bhp.com.au>]

Eddie Oliver <eoliver@efs.mq.edu.au> wrote in message
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> Chris Stratton reported a few weeks ago that the Darcy Road sidings had
> been lifted.
>
> On Saturday 17/7, work was being done on new tracks in the same area,
> laid in heavy rail on concrete sleepers (not yet ballasted). There are
> two tracks through the whole length of the former sidings area,
> terminating in a long single track in a new and very substantial
> cutting, more or less on the alignment of the long-abandoned breakwater
> cutting but on a much larger scale. The new track ends at a stop block
> just short of the breakwater area.
>
> What is this for? I presume it is not the construction siding for a
> secret joint project between RAC and TranzRail for a trans-Tasman
> tunnel?
>
> Eddie Oliver
There was a development proposal listed in the city council pages of the
Advertiser for a container loading/unloading point in Darcy Road. I haven't
heard it confirmed anywhere yet but assume this is what the new track is
for.
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Regards,
Chris Stratton
Wollongong, NSW, Australia
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