Re: Brisbane Photo - 284
  Richard Youl

One quirk that I did notice the day I was taking movie film there was two trams with the same destination passing each other as they went around the loop in opposite directions!

Regards


> On 28 Nov 2020, at 11:10 am,tramdude@... wrote:

>

> Mal's photo shows Racecourse Rd and Lancaster St junction at Eagle Farm racecourse.

> I've managed to locate a Dick Jones photo from the last race day before closure, showing the pointsman and lever at Kingsford Smith Dve and Amy St, where race trams entered the Albion Park loop. The pointsman is watching the trams crossing Breakfast Creek Bridge and diverting the "Race Specials" into the double track loop, which went round the block and met KSD again at Agnes St. Trams could also enter Agnes St if Amy St was full but I'm not sure if there was a pointsmen there or the points were changed by the conductor. Robert Thompson would know.

> The attached map extract shows the layout.

>

> Cheers,

> Mick in Brisbane

>

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>> On 27/11/2020 05:40, David McLoughlin wrote:

>> The same intersection also had a complicated double-track

>> round-the-block loop for Albion Park Racecourse special trams. I don't

>> know if the entry to that (basically straight ahead where the other

>> lines went left and right) had its own powered points or used manual

>> methods. Probably the latter given the infrequent use.

>>

>

> Manual - with a very attentive pointsman operating a roadside lever.

>

> Mal Rowe - thanking 'James Renfrey' for the photo

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> <FM and Pointsman Kingsford Smith Dve and Amy St 0469 RJones.jpg>

> <Albion Park Loop.jpg>