Re: Toorak Station

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

Memory whats that?

There was a single line siding running up from the Up Through line on the up
end of Armadale Station to the yard at street level, (actually the ramp had
a fairly easy grade if memory serves me right? as the mainline drops away
down Toorak Bank towards the city).

Bob.

Alleyn Boucher <bantrade@alphalink.com.au> wrote in message
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> How was the yard accessed from the main?
> On Thu, 23 Sep 1999 02:23:04 +1000, "Exnarc" <gwrly@netspace.net.au>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >David Langley <del@ancc.com.au> wrote in message
> >37E773EB.2687B312@ancc.com.au">news:37E773EB.2687B312@ancc.com.au...
> >> Jack Frost wrote:
> >>
> >> > 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
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >
> >God, (sorry David), it must be great to be young?
> >
> >David is right, (I am that old that I have actually shunted in that
Yard).
> >
> >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.
> >
> >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?
> >
> >The tower as suggested would have been for parcel traffic being lifted to
> >and from street level.
> >
> >Bob.
> >
> >
> >
>