Lets see if you know your tracks!! What station is that???

RoderickSmith · Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 4:51 pm

No fresh clues, just yes/no until Monday.
Not Dunolly.

If a clue is needed, probably the most helpful will be the size of the turntable?

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ekni123 · Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 8:07 pm

is it Bacchus Marsh?

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MOM · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 9:43 am

Wouldn't be the Marsh. Annett and Staff locks, nop.

I suspect it's out on a grain line, possibly close to where Roderick has been floating.

Maybe Merringur ?

RoderickSmith · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 11:46 am

Not: Dunolly, Bacchus Marsh or Meringur (no turntable).

I will have no internet access from 36 min time until Monday.

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RoderickSmith · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 12:15 pm

Clue time: At the time of the diagram, the turntable was 70 ft [21.3 m]. I have just found that it had replaced a shorter earlier turntable.

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Ballast_Plough · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 12:19 pm

St. Arnaurd?

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MOM · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 1:23 pm

Oh woo is me....Woomelang!

RoderickSmith · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 1:38 pm

Not Mornington, Yea, Dunolly, Bacchus Marsh, Meringur, St Arnaud (wrong turntable position) or Woomelang.

I can't recall which way Woomelang's turntable faced: certainly up end, up side, but i suspect a trailing set of points, not facing set. Also IIRC it had a coal stage.

Notice the absence of a carriage dock: perhaps one had been provided, but removed, perhaps there never had been one (giving a hint to the construction era).

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RoderickSmith · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 7:02 am

I have just checked some of the transitions in the life of this station.
As with many stations of this style, the initial provision was of tracks 1, 2 & 4, with a gap to allow for 3. At various times, 3 was added, and down-end extensions were added.
I have found the date of installation of the short turntable, and also the date of its replacement with the long one.
When the turntable was removed, the coal-stage siding remained: that is inconsistent with this diagram, which doesn't show such a siding.
The railmotor dock was removed at a date after this diagram, but does not show on the diagram. Perhaps that down-end siding was regarded as the railmotor dock?

This station has/had been a terminus and a through station; at the time of the diagram, it was a through station.

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Lance-Fieldline · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 5:44 pm

Hi there

After much consideration, my answer is Hopetoun, but i am probably not even close Rolling Eyes

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RoderickSmith · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 6:03 pm

Not Mornington, Yea, Dunolly, Bacchus Marsh, Meringur, St Arnaud, Woomelang or Hopetoun.

AFAIK I sketched Hopetoun for myself, but I won't be able to find it fast. I suspect that there are many similarities to this generic one.

Latest clue: the red (Northern & Midland) timetable (from which four of the eight entries to date have come).

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MOM · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 6:34 pm

I'm totally guessing now as I have run out of research material.

Wycheproof (not even sure of the spelling)

RoderickSmith · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 7:03 pm

Not Wycheproof: its turntable was (and still is) at the down end.

Despite the difficulty of a generic plan, several entries have picked on the essential style clues, and given stations of like character (certainly grain belt), just not the one which has this plan. I don't really have any worthwhile clue left; running through the list of stations with turntables will get there by brute force.

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MOM · Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 8:00 pm

Charlton

(Brute guess)

RoderickSmith · Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 10:21 pm

Not Mornington, Yea, Dunolly, Bacchus Marsh, Meringur, St Arnaud, Woomelang, Hopetoun, Wycheproof or Charlton (IIRC no turntable).

We could stretch this out for 4 more weeks until John is back, but I think that it will go before then.

Notice the subtle clue: a reference to railmotor dock/siding, which places the station as one on a railmotor route (I have been there by scheduled railmotor, also by steam-hauled railway-enthusiast tour).

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