Re: The Great South Pacific Express

["JohnMcCandless" <johnmc@topend.com.au>]

Ron BEST <ronbest@bigpond.com> wrote in article
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> JohnMcCandless <johnmc@topend.com.au> wrote in message
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> > afaik, the GPSE continues to Mareeba, where it goes round the angle
there.
> >
> Do they really turn a 20-car train on a triangle built to reverse locos?
 

If I were to hazard a guess, I would say that the triangle is also the
junction for the
Forsayth/Chillagoe line, and the Atherton line. There would be no problems
reversing a
train around that.