On 9/12/2017 2:21 PM, Richard Youltressteleg@... [TramsDownUnder] wrote:
> Thanks for those photos Mal but they are somewhat north of the area I had looked at closely over the last few years. That was in the dip next to the cemetery.

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> Anyway if you get the chance to take photos of the section beside the cemetery when that gets done, I would be interested to see what is under the road top. I suspect it is something sitting on a concrete base, and while it certainly would not be 101 years old, that style of construction was obviously before the Bourke St lines in the mid 1950s where it was concrete to rail top. Whatever methods they used, that track has certainly stood the test of time very much better than a lot of track laid afterwards.

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The condition is much the same.
As a start, here's a pic opposite the cemetery where you can see the same 'pumped foundation material' on both rails of the track nearer the camera.
It's not as clear as the earlier pics as I was not seeking to illustrate the track condition at the time.

Mal who reckons It's quiet because the foundation is very soft!