Re: Benalla again

[L & D <daisyw@ozemail.com.au>]

Rod wrote:

> David Langley <del@ancc.com.au> wrote in message
> 3809D693.C3C97D88@ancc.com.au">news:3809D693.C3C97D88@ancc.com.au...
> > 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?

Looking at it the box needs more than a paint job if it's to last much longer
any way.

>
> 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