Re: Toorak Station

[bantrade@alphalink.com.au (Alleyn Boucher)]

How was the yard accessed from the main?
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999 02:23:04 +1000, "Exnarc" <gwrly@netspace.net.au>
wrote:

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>David Langley <del@ancc.com.au> wrote in message
>37E773EB.2687B312@ancc.com.au">news:37E773EB.2687B312@ancc.com.au...
>> Jack Frost wrote:
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>> > At the Caulfield end of Platform 1 at Toorak is a tower structure that
>> > connects the platform and the road above. It is not in use. What is
>> > it?
>> > TIA
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>> It was a parcels/goods lift and connected the goods yard (where the
>> parcels office was) with the passenger station. Don't forget the goods
>> yard here was at street level. Parcels coaches from Dandenong and
>> Frankston would use the up through lines and clear parcels to Melbourne
>> for on forwarding..
>>
>> David.
>>
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>God, (sorry David), it must be great to be young?
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>David is right, (I am that old that I have actually shunted in that Yard).
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>The yard was electrified and received timber and Briquetes, it could only be
>accessed from the Through Lines and the Down Dandenong Goods would alternate
>every other day, (not sure of the actual days of the week) one day it would
>run via the Local Lines and shunt at Malvern, the next day it would run via
>the Through lines and shunt Toorak.
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>I would suggest that the reason the yard was at street level would have had
>some connection with the original level of the line before the 3rd (later
>4th) line was added?
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>The tower as suggested would have been for parcel traffic being lifted to
>and from street level.
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>Bob.
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