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Warks
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Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 3:03 pm
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Okay I thought I might as well jump in and do this as I have a day off.
Might be the only chance I get to ask the question.
Dunno if this is feasible given that most sites have not been visited especially interstate etc. Still a guessing game is good fun provided clues are forthcoming.
So where is it? Click to enlarge.
Not a hard one to start.
Last edited by Warks on Sun Dec 16, 2007 12:59 pm; edited 3 times in total
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Rodo
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Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 3:36 pm
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Should be a now closed line so I will go for the Ropes Creek-Dunheeved area. Milatristic warehouse and elec cantenary point to this.
Lord Rodo ~ ~ el Ambassadorio del Lithgovian Peoples Republic & Evil Empire
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Sonofagunzel
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Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 3:38 pm
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Carlingford?
SOAG
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Sparkie
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Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 4:13 pm
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Hmmm, Thats quite a good one.
I would have guessed what SOAG guessed, but cant (obviously)
I'll have a stab and say just off the Main North, around Thornleigh
Pete
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Warks
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Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 5:13 pm
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| Sonofagunzel wrote: | | Carlingford? |
Yes!
Not that difficult if you've been there. It's the (still operating) Carlingford Produce Store - one of the very few left in Sydney urban areas. There used to be quite a yard there - a few hundred metres of dual track goes on beyond the buffer at the current platform. See the link below to the station in 1968 on Richard Felstead's website. (This was posted on an earlier RA page). You can see the roof over the weighbridge. Love that picture.
Now there's only the single track by the platform.
Overall what do you think of this quiz concept?
(Who are you going to give it to SOAG?)
http://richardfelstead.100megsfree5.com/sliprail_files/Railway_Carlingford_1968.jpg
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Sonofagunzel
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Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 5:16 pm
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Congratulations, Sparkie, you are the latest beneficiary of my Whereizzit largesse.
Over to you.
SOAG
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Sparkie
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Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 6:22 pm
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Thanks, SOAG.
I like the quiz idea, thought about instigating it a while back, but thought it may be a little too hard to get all states involved.
Thanks Warks for getting it going.
Now for a pic....
Might be easy, might be hard. I guess well see in a sec...
One thing for sure: It's definetly Railway Archaeology!!!
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Warks
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Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 8:57 pm
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Rough guess as to area - north of Armidale - Deepwater?
... and loving it!
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duttonbay
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Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 10:03 pm
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Total guess - a branch somewhere on the south - Tumbarumba line maybe?
John
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Sparkie
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Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 10:30 am
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Neither. Closer to Tumbarumba. Off the same main line.
Another hint. Rails are lifted, therefore the line is formally closed by act of parliament. That narrows it down a lot.
Pete
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Chris Anderson
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Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 1:08 pm
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Batlow?
Mr. Anderson... surprised to see me?
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Sparkie
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Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 1:15 pm
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Batlow still has rails....
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Chris Anderson
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Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2004 1:14 am
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Sorry about that Sparkie... was just a guess, not a very good one, but the best I could really do from over here.
Next guess, somewhere on the Westvy branch, Mangoplah?
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Sparkie
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Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2004 10:13 am
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Hey, No need to apologise!
However, we are thinking more along the right lines now. It's not on the Westby branch though, Try another line that closed around that time.
Pete
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Chris Anderson
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Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2004 2:05 pm
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Strathaird, on the Taralga branch?
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