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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:57 pm
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Hey guys,
Just wondering what's going on at Gawler station and near Salisbury. Are they just resleepering? I've noticed they've pulled up a section of track near platform 1, but haven't taken away the rails.
Cheers
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fabricator
Deputy Commissioner
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Location: Gawler
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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 12:16 pm
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Heh TA must have found that photo I posted on here earlier.
Gawler Platform 1
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David Peters
Minister for Railways
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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 1:31 pm
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If they checked on here more often Fabricator they could fix a lot more too! It would save them having to hoof it to inspect it! 
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nm39
Chief Train Controller
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 8:48 am
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| David Peters wrote: | | If they checked on here more often Fabricator they could fix a lot more too! It would save them having to hoof it to inspect it! |
Actually checking the track on shanks pony is a legal requirement.
Silly old Gordon, got stuck inna DITCH......
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David Peters
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 2:02 pm
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Tell it to TA, most inspections would be done in daylight to see what you are looking at, I have not seen a track walker in years along any TA track and probably current OH&S would prohibit it anyway now on busy tracks.
The little subsidence that occurred on the tracks leading in to the NRM a while back would have gone unnoticed, if our Safety manager had not reported it to them. The track subsided enough to be very dangerous, by the way this was on TA track and had nothing to do with the NRM at all other than blocking access to the NRM by rail! The first news they would have got was probably from the railcar driver that had to take a train in there a couple of nights later. It is fixed now! 
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ARG706
Chief Commissioner
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 2:06 pm
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| David Peters wrote: | Tell it to TA, most inspections would be done in daylight to see what you are looking at, I have not seen a track walker in years along any TA track and probably current OH&S would prohibit it anyway now on busy tracks.
The little subsidence that occurred on the tracks leading in to the NRM a while back would have gone unnoticed, if our Safety manager had not reported it to them. The track subsided enough to be very dangerous, by the way this was on TA track and had nothing to do with the NRM at all other than blocking access to the NRM by rail! The first news they would have got was probably from the railcar driver that had to take a train in there a couple of nights later. It is fixed now! |
Reminds me of those flood dips on the road from Black Rock to Orroroo which you have to keep braking for!
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David Peters
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 2:10 pm
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From what I was told it looked like one too!
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85trainfan
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 5:45 pm
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| David Peters wrote: | Tell it to TA, most inspections would be done in daylight to see what you are looking at, I have not seen a track walker in years along any TA track and probably current OH&S would prohibit it anyway now on busy tracks.
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back a few months ago there were track workers walking along the belair line. Marking sleepers at every 10 intervals and highlighting trackside objects with yellow paint. They had gone a fair way as i saw them first at eden hills then again at mitcham and millswood
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409
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 6:08 pm
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I see track walkers through Parafield Gardens every few weeks or so, mainly early in the morning. Since the new timetable came in during April, they have been thinner on the ground though.
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mynameismike
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 6:53 pm
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409 I think that is a record for five identical posts.
"The Americans will always do the right thing... After they've exhausted all the alternatives." - Winston Churchill
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David Peters
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 7:43 pm
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Dont blame 409, blame Fang two the server, it has been doing it a lot lately.
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ARG706
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 8:27 pm
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| mynameismike wrote: | | 409 I think that is a record for five identical posts. |
I see 6 on 3dtrains.com all the time
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awsgc24
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Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 11:56 am
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| fabricator wrote: | Heh TA must have found that photo I posted on here earlier.
Gawler Platform 1 |
The NSW Opposition had apoplexy when they found the odd concrete sleeper without Pandrol clips. Each sleeper normally has four clips. But these sleepers seem to have no spikes or rail anchors at all. Are the rails glued in place by hidden superglue?
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ARG706
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Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 12:42 pm
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If one showed TA that photo, they'd probably ask to see the permit you had to photograph it!
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fabricator
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Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 5:25 pm
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The NSW Opposition had apoplexy when they found the odd concrete sleeper without Pandrol clips. Each sleeper normally has four clips. But these sleepers seem to have no spikes or rail anchors at all. Are the rails glued in place by hidden superglue? |
Held in place by gravity 
Off camera to the left is 210 tons of 4 car Jumbo, which had driven over that mess.
I saw TA's tamper parked at Gawler station during the daylight hours, it was outside the compound and the staff were standing around and giving it filthy looks. Probably broken down again in other words.
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