Re: Re: Fw: Standard gauge in Victoria Geelong to the west

Name the day, Peter. All my Feb Fridays already shot. All March Fridays
free.

I was going to say no kids, but Michael, Adrian, Leonie, Stephen...would be
fine.

Bob Murphy


----- Original Message -----
From: "demondriver44" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 9:15 PM
Subject: [TramsDownUnder] Re: Fw: Standard gauge in Victoria Geelong to the
west

I certainly do Murph,I propose that one night,pref.a Friday we go out
to Great Western and camp way beyond the tram terminus[Airport West?]
and watch the trains go by and maybe have a Guinness or two,just so
we don't go too far off topic we can talk about trams,what do you
reckon?anyone else interested?maybe mid March.PBruce.--- In
TramsDownUnder@y..., "IS Edit" <isedit@g...> wrote:

I thought he was talking a furrin language. Interesting about the

standard gauge maybe going to Maryborough, though. And Peter B. will
know what he was talking about.

Bob Murphy
----- Original Message -----
From: Herman R. Silbiger
To: TramsDownUnder@y...
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 1:30 AM
Subject: Re: [TramsDownUnder] Fw: Standard gauge in Victoria

Geelong to the west

What is the context of this message? How does this relate to

trams?

greg o flynn wrote:

----- Original Message -----
From: greg o flynn
To: Tranzrailphotographers ModeratorSent: Thursday, February

07, 2002 12:48 AMSubject: Standard gauge in Victoria Geelong to the
west

Hi there From Greg O'Flynn in Warrnambool ( Home of WCR'S

carriage maintainence depot) >From North Geelong the standard
gauge to the west does follow along the Hamilton highway as it
crosses over it near Inverleigh but is across the paddocks by 100
yards or slightly more in spots to Wingeel the first crossing loop
after Gheringhap( currently the end of the dual gauge from Nth Glong
C box .and the point of divergence of the line to Mildura via
Ballarrat). this corridor is to be converted to narrow gauge ( ie
standard guage) commencing in June this year and expected to take
three months, and along the way creating two or three dual gauge
interfaces for want of a better description, Nth G/long Ballarrat and
possibly Maryborough; Meanwhile from Wingeel to just out of Cressy
the line paralells the highway, but most of the traffic is west bound
late evening an o/nite and of course East bound is early am.
From Cressy ( formerly a two way Jct the line from Ballarrat to
Irrewarra; The Jct on the line to Warrnambool) joined and left at
Cressy all connection removed in the 50's continues westward to the
next loop at Berrybank, skirting the townships of Lismore an
Derrinallum, then turning northwest when it becomes very difficult to
follow the line closely, on to ViteVite Xing loop, Tatyoon Xing loop
to Junction with the main line to Portland at Maroona, 15 miles south
of Ararat, C T C currently commences at Pyrenees Loop 2 miles west
of Ararat but within the next 3/4 weeks will be extended to Maroona,
signalling the removal of the last Somersault signals on the main
line to the West. The CTC is controlled from Adelaide in Stg
Australia. TCO'sther control from Albury South box on the NSW border
to Adelaide on Aust rail track Authority lines including some signal
release functions in Melbourne. You can follow the line west
from Ararat quite easily to the S/A border bbut the man with the
electric spray gun is always around aand his charges start at
aroound $ 160 aus and 1or 2 demerit pionts , and you only get ten and
the trains run at 100, to 115, k's (or better) conversley its still
worth a go as thoe GM's or ge's sound great. Train lengths up to 1600
m. As David said if youre over here send us an e mail. By the
way a good site for S/G B/G sightings is Graham Elliots site
http;//www.railpage.org.au/ghaploop/ . Cheers
Greg O' Flynn.

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