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awsgc24
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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 2:47 pm
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A new loop siding 383m long is being built just north of Forbes on the Stockingbingal-Parkes line for the newish operator Mountain Industries.
What does MI expect to load/unload at this siding?
The new siding is operated by ground frames A and B, and has those triangular station limit boards (or what ever they are called) located 1600m from the loop points. If the main line speed is say 100km/h, what is the speed past those triangular location boards, and over the points?
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Riccardo
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DavidB
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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 2:57 pm
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| awsgc24 wrote: | A new loop siding 383m long is being built just north of Forbes on the Stockingbingal-Parkes line for the newish operator Mountain Industries.
What does MI expect to load/unload at this siding? |
Mountain Industries and its sister company Mountain Bulk Haulage is a logistics subcontractor to the agriculture, construction and mining industries, and civil engineering contractors in their own right. They have major depots in Forbes, St Marys and Newcastle, and indicated an interest in a presence at the Parkes Hub. There is some sort of business replationship with Silverton but I don't know exactly what it is.
| awsgc24 wrote: | | The new siding is operated by ground frames A and B, and has those triangular station limit boards (or what ever they are called) |
Location boards or location markers, or something similar.
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David
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vicsig
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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 3:41 pm
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Siding called "Mountian Industries Siding"
Frames locked by key from a dwawer lock.
Triangle boards are called Location boards.
Draw lock released by miniture electric staff for the section.
Will release 2 keys.
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awsgc24
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Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 3:36 pm
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The Mountain Industries sidings is located on a block of land with the railway on the West, and the Newell Highway strategically placed on the east. The nearby Lachlan River may or may not be floodprone.
All in all, it sounds like a good place to put a freight hub of some kind, perhaps for warehousing.
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dalts 1985
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Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 7:52 pm
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| awsgc24 wrote: | The Mountain Industries sidings is located on a block of land with the railway on the West, and the Newell Highway strategically placed on the east. The nearby Lachlan River may or may not be floodprone.
All in all, it sounds like a good place to put a freight hub of some kind, perhaps for warehousing. |
Yes the Lachlan is prone to flooding althrough from what relatives in Parkes have told me I hasn't flooded for a while as it hasn't had a real good "Flush out" for a while because of the low water level because of the drought. Also you don't dare go swimming in the Lachlan as it is prone to mini whirl pools, which have there own little part in history.
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