Re: Mt Barker Junction

["Exnarc" <gwrly@netspace.net.au>]

Notagunzel <notagunzel@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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> bill johnston <wajohns@tpgi.com.au> wrote in message
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> > Although I knew that Mt Barker Junction signalling remained in place
> after
> > guage standardisation, I had always assumed that the junction itself had
> been
> > bulldozed. I was therefore surprised to see in September Catchpoint that
> the
> > junction pointsremain and a dual guage line disappears into the
distance.
> How
> > far does the dual guage go?, and have any standard guage trains ever
used
> the
> > it? What is the situation at Woolsley (spelling?). Again I have always
> presumed
> > that the junction was removed.
>
> Wolseley is a boring crossing loop, the East end points (actually a
> crossover) are west of the platform, making the platform in the single
line
> section to Leeor.  Before the Narrow Gauge conversion, there was a delta
> crossover past the east end of the platform (it it the up or down end???)
> but it now deceased.  The loop is on the south side of the track, and the
> east end of it beyond the crossover mentioned above is the lead into the
> grain siding.  The Real Gauge track from the South finishes in a pile of
> dirt, if my memory serves correctly.
>
> As for Mt Barker Jct, I vaugely remeber seeing SG Track Machines in there
> last time I passed through in the Overdue.
>
> Good to see in that photo in Catchpoint that the Up Departure Signals are
> still REAL signals.
>
> --
> Mr Notagunzel.
> GRS 2A Signal Motor Connoisseur.
> notagunzel@bigfoot.com
> (Waiting for the next move at http://www.bigfoot.com/~notagunzel)
>

Its been 9 months since I worked a train into Adelaide, but at the begining
of 1999 the situation at Mt Barker Junction was:

Points (sorry switch) remains in situe, however the "K" crossing (frog) has
been removed.

All the signalling is in situe and working.

The broad gauge ends about 2m before the Absolute Signal from the Victor
Harbour Line, whilst the standard gauge runs almost the full length of the
platform.

As I said this was at the begining of this year.

Bob.