Re: [VIC] Melb. Kensington Grain Today.

[Stuart Turnbull <stuartt@netspace.net.au>]

Steven Hurst wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
>         Whilst trying to catch up to the SRHC train down the BMS line today
> (see my "Re: J515 to Ballarat" posting) I was held up by P20 removing 3
> VHGFs from the Kensington (KEN) Goodman Fielder Siding.  It pushed the
> wagons out into the Down platform, then pulled them back onto the UP
> suburban line, instead of the goods lines there as I expected.
>     Then whilst at SSS, this train was then sighted running along the lines
> past SSS.  It normally would stop at NME and run around to take the wagons
> back to Tottenham yard.  Does anyone have ANY idea where this train would
> have been going instead?!
> 
>     As an aside, I was wondering how the loco got behind the wagons?  Would
> it have run to the end of the siding, then run back thru the unloading bay?
> I have never witnessed the shunting entirely, and I don't understand what
> happens here.  I would have though that perhaps the tracks would not take
> the weight of the loco through the shed/unloading area.
> 
> regards,
> 
> Steven Hurst
> Melbourne, Australia
> 
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> 11-14 November 1999
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Steven,

The loco (which now stables at Kensington during the day) definitely 
runs to the end of the siding and then back to the wagons via the 
unloader/weighbridge. It then attaches to the wagons, propels them 
across the Macaulay Rd crossing before heading back to town on the 
country lines. Remember the goods lines were removed from Kensington 
some years ago, so only 4 tracks converge at Kensington rather than the 
previous 6.

Cheers

Stuart