Re: Kilmore Pioneer Quarry Train (Vic.)

["Roderick Smith" <rodsmith@werple.net.au>]

The wtt is probably wrong for the same reason that this newsgroup is often
wrong: old habits die hard.
Pioneer took over about 10 years ago, and the siding is signposted Pioneer.
 Possibly the compilation clerk neither knows nor cares.

Rod's example of coal sidings which no longer are used for coal is not
really relevant.  The name of the siding is not derived from the name of
the company which it serves.

What is the name of the siding serving the rollingstock factory south-east
of Dandenong?

How many railway enthusiasts have the faintest idea about the changes in
ownership and naming of APM?

-- 
Regards
Roderick Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

Rod <berlina@bigpond.com> wrote in article
<7lm5ma$lm$1@news1.mpx.com.au>...
> >I'm with you Chris. The current WTT shows it as Apex Quarry Siding. The
> Quarry
> >operating company might be Pioneer (and didn't Boral have a hand in it
at
> some
> >stage?) but the siding is still Apex Quarry Siding. 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!