Re: "drawbridge" crossings of cane lines over QR

["Roderick Smith" <rodsmith@werple.net.au>]

Eddie's question adds to the existing thread on movable-span bridges. 
Another in the drawbridge category is Pichi Richi's access to Stirling
North: a temporary span placed over one leg of the sg triangle. 
Presumably, there is now something more substantial.

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Regards
Roderick Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

Eddie Oliver <eoliver@efs.mq.edu.au> wrote in article
<37E03E68.28BD09FC@efs.mq.edu.au>...
> I am looking for information about the locations of the "drawbridge"
> crossings (replacing former diamond crossings) where sugar cane lines
> cross Queensland Rail tracks. Apparently complete lengths of
> cane-railway  track can be lowered to pass across the QR tracks when
> required, but are otherwise lifted out of the way.
> A complete list of such locations would be ideal, but just a sample
> would be better than nothing. I realise that individual cases have been
> mentioned from time to time in journals like Light Railways, but I am
> hoping for a more consolidated source.
> Any information about how these crossings actually work would also be
> valuable.