Re: AN sleepers in Suburban Melbourne

[pcc@ocean.com.au (Les Brown)]

"Rod" <comtran@mpx.com.au> wrote in aus.rail:

>auge convertible sleepers
>> with the Standard Gauge clip deleted. They came from the Tailem Bend
>> factory, & still had AN markings all over them.  After awhile they started
>> getting (& still are) sleepers from the factory nr Geelong.  These are the
>> same as the Standard Gauge Sleepers installed between NPT & Nth Geelong,
>> (except they are BG).  These ones have the PTC logo cast into them.
>>
>AN concrete sleepers have just been laid at Chiltern, as part of the loop
>extension project, and get this.....
>by NSW crews in Blue Trucks.....Looks really strange to see the Blue Work
>Vans and not an orange one in sight.
>Rod

Lets get this straight.

AN Sleepers, laid by NSW crews in Victoria? Presumably the rail
fasteners were made of NSW forged steel from WA iron-ore as well?

I hope at least the cement was from Victoria.

Whatever happened to state borders or is my parochialism showing?

Les Brown