Re: Swanston Street Works

["Ron BEST" <ronbest@bigpond.com>]

Is this now like the junction of Carlisle St, St Kilda Rad and Brighton Rd,
where the turnout for trams turning from Carlisle St into St Kilda Rd is at
a shallow angle to the straight track, then swings around, or have they laid
"gauntlet" track as on some European systems?

Does this junction now have overhead contactor and/or transponder control? I
don't think it did before the rehash. Of course, under the present routing
system, there is no regular use for the "straight" route.

(BTW, as I pointed out in another thread, when this was a
manually-controlled junction, the "white" aspect (branch) was shown on the
signal for the straight route, i.e. to Victoria St.

Does anybody know just what did happen to the person who was trying to join
a tram at the old terminus and was killed? (which resulted in the terminal
facilities being abandoned.)

Yet another query: Where were ALL the manually-controlled junctions
(including termini) in  Melbourne? (excluding railway crossings)

To my knowledge. there was/is:

Franklin St
Elizabeth St terminus
Batman Avenue terminus
Camberwell Junction (went auto 30+ years ago?)
St Kilda Junction (went auto when rebuilt in 1968/69)
All/most depot entrances?

was the "third road" at Domain Interchange ever manually controlled?

Christopher_Martin GORDON wrote in message
<7bcr4k$fcm$1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>...
>
>They have redone the points outside the city baths, they now start at
>the south end of the intersection (Franklin St) split staight and go
>straigh for a while then curve around the corner.  Have a look it is a
>interesting layout now (much better, and you can change the points
>with out walking in to the intersection like before)  I spose the
>removed the control of the points from the signal box becuse it is not
>used any more.
>
>The other work they did was removing the points (cross over) at
>Queensberry Street, about time, that cross over totaly stuffed
>everything, now the trams turn at La Trobe Street or University.
>
>So the destination "City, Q'Berry St" cant be used any more.
>
>--
>Chris Gordon
>http://www.ecr.mu.oz.au/~cmgord