Lindfield Box and Station remodelling.

sandown · Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 11:19 pm

Anybody passing thru Lindfield NSW will notice the station overhead pedestrian walkway and booking office being remodelled.

In addition to the booking office relocation the roof has also been removed from the precast concrete signal box on the Up end of platforms 2/3 and the lever frame lifted out and placed along side the Pacific Hwy entrance. The frame can be readily seen from the pedestrian walkway.

I assume the box is due for demolition shortly as a temporary board fence has been erected around the signal box.

Innuendo is not Italian for suppository

Junction box · Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:37 am

It was only a small box, when are locals going to lobby for their heritage preservation, future generations would like to see things like that still place.

nosecone · Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 3:23 pm

awsgc24 · Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 4:00 pm

The new lift and power room will go more or less where the old signal box was. The signal box was very ugly, the one at Gordon is much nicer.

TheLoneGunMan · Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 4:29 pm

Hi All,

I hope that they invest some money towards linking the terminal road platform 2 to the up and down shore lines at the Hornsby end of the station, like the arrangement at Gordon.

Mike P

M636C · Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 4:48 pm

Early photos from the single track era show most of the stations, including Lindfield, had an open lever frame under the projecting station roof at the entrance end, where the ticket office was later located at Roseville, Killara and Turramurra (and probably Wahroongah, Waitara and possibly Warrawee, although it had only a single platform originally).

On double tracking, of course these lost any point controls but presumably were kept for signal operation until automatic signals were introduced, I guess with electrification.

Chatswood and Gordon kept these frames and a wooden signal box was built around them. Does anyone know when Lindfield got its separate box?

What is happening to the Lindfield frame? Is it intended to replace it on the station somewhere?

M636C

awsgc24 · Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 12:09 pm

The old lever frame has disappeared.

The base for the lift on Platform1 has be dug, and one layer of concrete poured.

The progress of the lift on platform 2/3 is hidden by hoarding.

A start had been made on the piling on the new longer ramp on the highway side.

awsgc24 · Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 1:37 pm

FYI, the booking office on the bridge has been replaced by a temporary BO in a custom modified 40 ISO container which is located on the Highway where the Bank used to be.

Progress is being made pouring the concrete base for the P1 lift.

awsgc24 · Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 10:45 am

Piles for the west side ramp and station buildings are starting to be poured.

Given talk about quad track from Chatswood to Gordon, it is not clear if these new piles leave room for a fourth track on the west side, including a platform?

Sydney_Gunzel · Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 3:57 pm

Bringing this up, the lever frame from Lindfield has been acquired by SPER [Sydney Tramway Museum] who plan, among other things, to use one or two levers in their restoration of a cable-tram grip. No pics of the relocated one but it looks the same as in Nosecones shots.

edison · Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 10:11 pm

Stretching the topic to two stations further south - Chatswood lever frame is to be installed in the bus interchange outside the new Chatswood station. There is a pit of indeterminate depth, i.e. the temp fence around it makes it impossible to see the bottom of it, and there is a small container inside the fence, presumably containing the frame in question.

awsgc24 · Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 7:48 pm

The reinforcing for the concrete boxes containing the lift towers now show the doors.

awsgc24 · Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 8:33 pm

upperquadrant · Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 3:14 pm

awsgc24 · Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2008 7:19 pm