Great stuff Matthew.

I am intrigued by the degree of stagger on the contact wire in the second shot.
Was it pulled back to allow for the track works, is it normal, or is it the camera angle?

Cheers,
Mick in very tropical Brissie








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On 24/09/13 12:11, skinboy wrote:

http://www.131500.com.au/service-changes/late-breaking-news-1/light-rail-replaced-by-buses-this-weekend-27-to-30-september-due-to-trackwork
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Light rail services will be replaced by buses from Friday 27
September 12am to Monday 30 September 6am. 

The Light rail line will be closed for maintenance in preparation for
the Inner West Light rail extension opening in early 2014. I'm
currently in a country where they will undertake major track works, IN
TRAFFIC.
I also photographed this happening in Vienna. A rock breaker , digger
and a road/rail tipper breaking up the 4ft. Every time a tram arrived
they would all get out of the way, let the tram pass, and then get
back to what they were doing.

 Also a major junction being used with out the road surface being
reinstated and points man changing the points over every couple of
minutes as the auto changer hadn't been reconnected.

 But in Sydney the line has to be closed for an entire weekend just
to do some 'maintence in preparation'. (I assume it's putting in a set
of points at Lillyfield to make the station properly dual track).



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