Re: Sarina cane railway smash

[James Brook <ajmbrook@ozemail.com.au>]

    In the cane season the amount of traffic on the cane lines is very suprising. I
was up in Queensland during July for the BB18 1/4 trip to Cairns and when I was in
Mackay I photographed quite a few cane trains on the Farleigh Sugar Mill lines. Cane
trains passed our location every 20 minutes. At Ingham we stopped for 20 minutes to
service the loco and there is a cane line just south of the platform. Three very
long trains passed us in the 20 minutes we stopped there. The 2' cane lines are
almost like a mainline and the amount of traffic is amazing.

Bruce Greening wrote:

> Dont decry the cane railways in Queensland. Many of them are quite extensive and
> sophisticated systems.
>
> Bill wrote:
>
> > I am always sad to hear of a railway accident. A 2' cane railway is a far cry
> > from operations near Paddington Station in England, but this underscores the
> > fact that when things go wrong on a railway, they turn to custard very quickly
> > and unpleasantly. Safe operations require eternal vigilance............
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > canetram59 wrote:
> >
> > > canetram59 <canetram59@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > > 380078d3@grissom">news:380078d3@grissom...
> > > > Apparently two ex NSWSRA 73 Class conversions met head on in a major smash
> > > > on the 2'0" gauge Plane Creek Mill system at Sarina,  today. Crew member
> > > on
> > > > one train was killed. I don't have any other details at present.
> > > >
> > > More details on the cane railway smash at Sarina. The locomotives involved
> > > were not ex NSWSRA 73 Class conversions. They were the "Allan Page" , an ex
> > > QR DH conversion which was bringing in to the mill 88 loaded bins collided
> > > on a level crossing with D12 a 32 tonne E.M.Baldwin bogie loco which was
> > > taking out empties. The driver of the "Allan Page" jumped off his loco
> > > before the impact but was killed when the loaded bins behind derailed. The
> > > poinstman on the "Allan Page" stayed in the cab of the loco. The crew of D12
> > > also bailed out and were unharmed.
> > >
> > > canetram59
>
> --
> Bruce L. Greening
> bgreeni@ibm.net



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