Re: Benalla again

["Rod" <comtrain@mpx.com.au>]

David Langley <del@ancc.com.au> wrote in message
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> Tony Gatt wrote in reply to Rod:
>
> > Besides, there is a small problem with what you say Rod..
> > If it is believed that Wodonga will be rationalised in the near future,
then why
> > would they not just use the levers that are made redundant, rather than
using
> > interlocking from Benalla...
>
> I understand that Benalla A is being kept for spare parts as ABB do not
have any
> mech int spares. Some of it is to go to Geelong apparently.
>
> David.
I understand what you say!  but we have as many as a dozen ABB and Freight
Victoria people crawling all over Wodonga as we speak [?]
If you are going to remove all the BG roads, except No2, and No6, the Loco
Road to the turn table, and
the SG road behind the box as well as all of the race......
Why would you even want a signal box?
Surely it would be set up like Wangaratta?
But the story they are all telling us is that their are no spare parts to
modify the frame to allow it to be switched out, and so they at very short
notice [last Tuesday] arranged the Benalla frame to be made available for
parts. I wonder if they checked to see if the frames are compatible? one
would think that the parts not needed when they start removing points and
signals would be recycled to produce the required close out levers?
Rod