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      wurx Lithgovian Ambassador-at-Large

    Location: The mystical lost principality of Daptovia
    Right state certainly, but nowhere near Rand.

    Pic brought forward for p164:

    [img]http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q262/pixwurx/IMGP1596_zps5d5w1qye_1.jpg[/img]
    Posted: 01 Feb 2015 00:55

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      Rodo Chief Commissioner

    Location: Southern Riverina
    Rand does have a bunker like that but I think that Urana has as well. That gives me a different answer anyway.
    Posted: 01 Feb 2015 10:07
      Rodo Chief Commissioner

    Location: Southern Riverina
    That makes me want to go further north, Grenfell perhaps ?
    Posted: 01 Feb 2015 10:18
      wurx Lithgovian Ambassador-at-Large

    Location: The mystical lost principality of Daptovia
    Not Grenfell, but part of your answer Rodo, is the next clue - head further north. Furtherer than Grenfell.
    Posted: 02 Feb 2015 11:19
      johnboy Chief Commissioner

    Location: Up the road from Gulgong
    Gwabegar?
    Posted: 02 Feb 2015 14:30
      Spletsie Chief Commissioner

    Canowindra?
    Posted: 02 Feb 2015 21:54
      wurx Lithgovian Ambassador-at-Large

    Location: The mystical lost principality of Daptovia
    Further north than Canobloodywindra; Gwabegar is probably nearly far enough north, but too far west by a branchline or two.
    Posted: 03 Feb 2015 19:03
      Spletsie Chief Commissioner

    Inverell?
    Posted: 03 Feb 2015 20:50
      johnboy Chief Commissioner

    Location: Up the road from Gulgong
    Manilla? ( I can only remember the long viaduct there)
    Posted: 03 Feb 2015 22:22

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      wurx Lithgovian Ambassador-at-Large

    Location: The mystical lost principality of Daptovia
    We now have the right line if not the location (not Inverell but that branch).
    Posted: 04 Feb 2015 18:59
      Spletsie Chief Commissioner

    Warialda
    Posted: 04 Feb 2015 20:55
      wurx Lithgovian Ambassador-at-Large

    Location: The mystical lost principality of Daptovia
    Warialda
    Spletsie
    ....is where we are. The rest of my Warialda pix can be found here.

    Floor to you, Spletsie Smile
    Posted: 05 Feb 2015 20:31
      Spletsie Chief Commissioner
    Posted: 06 Feb 2015 21:20
      wurx Lithgovian Ambassador-at-Large

    Location: The mystical lost principality of Daptovia
    That's an interesting one; looks if it could be an old pic, especially if it's when and where I think it is.

    Perhaps the demolition of Lilyvale station on the NSW South Coast line, during electrification works in the early 1980s?
    Posted: 08 Feb 2015 13:05
      Spletsie Chief Commissioner

    That's it wurx.
    I guess it is semi-archaeological in that while it is on a line in current use, the station depicted is no longer there.
    Yes, Lilyvale was being demolished when the photo was taken. The date was 10 August 1983.
    Back to you, wurx.
    Posted: 08 Feb 2015 21:13
      wurx Lithgovian Ambassador-at-Large

    Location: The mystical lost principality of Daptovia
    In the course of my job, I pass by that spot several times a week. Take it from me, nary a trace remains. The only clue as to Lilyvale's site is a substation on the Down side of the current double track Lilyvale tunnel, and the old single track, but still extant Lilyvale No. 2 tunnel.

    Thanks Spletsie.

    New pic in the morning Smile
    Posted: 08 Feb 2015 21:32
      wurx Lithgovian Ambassador-at-Large

    Location: The mystical lost principality of Daptovia
    In the course of my job, I pass by that spot several times a week. Take it from me, nary a trace remains. The only clue as to Lilyvale's site is a substation on the Down side of the current double track Lilyvale tunnel, and the old single track, but still extant Lilyvale No. 2 tunnel.

    Thanks Spletsie.

    New pic in the morning Smile
    wurx
    .....which was meant to be yesterday morning Sad In the body's (often) feeble attempts to realign itself with the rigours of shiftwork after some days off, I was, in spite of going to bed, unable to sleep a wink. Result being, yesterday morning I was like a completed example of the taxidermist's art (well & truly stuft).

    That aside, here be a new pic for puzzlement:

    [img]http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q262/pixwurx/IMGP1165_zps0vycc47v.jpg[/img]


    There's one clue already apparent, for the keen observer Wink
    Posted: 10 Feb 2015 12:54

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      mdhughes Junior Train Controller

    Location: Over the Edge Hill - Lime Street tunnels, Liverpool (work); lineside on the Standedge route (home)
    .....which was meant to be yesterday morning Sad In the body's (often) feeble attempts to realign itself with the rigours of shiftwork after some days off, I was, in spite of going to bed, unable to sleep a wink. Result being, yesterday morning I was like a completed example of the taxidermist's art (well & truly stuft).

    There's one clue already apparent, for the keen observer Wink
    wurx
    Are there by any chance two different gauges here?

    Cheers

    Martyn
    Posted: 17 Feb 2015 18:27
      wally-wowser1 Train Controller

    Location: overlooking the Mt vic washaway on Soldiers Pinch
    A clue would be the stone wall  hidden in the undergrowth   in the background ,but as to where I have no idea .

    Wally
    Posted: 17 Feb 2015 19:54
      wurx Lithgovian Ambassador-at-Large

    Location: The mystical lost principality of Daptovia
    Are there by any chance two different gauges here?

    Cheers

    Martyn
    mdhughes
    On this line, yes - after a fashion.

    However, not at this location.
    Posted: 20 Feb 2015 15:56

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      wurx Lithgovian Ambassador-at-Large

    Location: The mystical lost principality of Daptovia
    A clue would be the stone wall  hidden in the undergrowth   in the background ,but as to where I have no idea .

    Wally
    wally-wowser1
    Never even noticed the stone wall in the background (!), though I might have on the day.

    No, it's the stone-something-else in the foreground (a stone with a particular name); such pieces of railway infrastructure are more usually concrete or wood.
    Posted: 20 Feb 2015 16:00
      wally-wowser1 Train Controller

    Location: overlooking the Mt vic washaway on Soldiers Pinch
    Missing copeing stone on the lead up retaining wall ?
    Posted: 20 Feb 2015 22:03
      wurx Lithgovian Ambassador-at-Large

    Location: The mystical lost principality of Daptovia
    Missing copeing stone on the lead up retaining wall ?
    wally-wowser1
    'tisn't a retaining wall per se, it's part of a particular piece of infrastructure common to all railway stations. You're looking at one end of it Wink

    This line has many of this kind of infrastructure built from that same kind/type of stone; also along this line other certain pieces of infrastructure peculiar to railway stations are built of the same material.
    Posted: 21 Feb 2015 18:03
      mikesyd Chief Commissioner

    Location: Lurking
    'tisn't a retaining wall per se, it's part of a particular piece of infrastructure common to all railway stations. You're looking at one end of it Wink

    This line has many of this kind of infrastructure built from that same kind/type of stone; also along this line other certain pieces of infrastructure peculiar to railway stations are built of the same material.
    wurx
    One end of a Sandstone Platform or Goods Platform. Where? Somewhere (the track quality does not suggest that it is a Main line) where the wind blows is all that I can decipher so far.
    Posted: 21 Feb 2015 23:24
      wurx Lithgovian Ambassador-at-Large

    Location: The mystical lost principality of Daptovia
    So then, where do you find stations and platforms built out of bluestone? Admittedly, not one specific area, but overall, not that common. So that should help you narrow it down some.

    If nobody gets a bolt-from-the-bluestone blast of inspiration, I may post another possibly helpful pic.
    Posted: 22 Feb 2015 16:52

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