Railway Archaeology: where is it?

nosecone · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 2:41 pm

wurx · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 3:57 pm

That's the one nosecone, and thank you for adding to my knowledge Very Happy

In my iggerance, I would have accepted Tallong as an answer.

When driving under that bridge, I was only half inclined to take pix - until I saw the old piers of the previous bridge, which was probably a Whitton bridge, and I would venture to say, of a similar age to the Menangle bridge (which is also a Whitton bridge).

Here's one of the more complete old piers next to a car containing a just barely patient wurxette Neutral

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And this is looking in the opposite direction, toward Marulan, showing a less complete pier. The road in the background is the Highland Way.

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A closeup of that pier (this is the shot that I cropped).

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And for a contemporary reference, this is the Main South, looking toward Tallong, just near the current bridge.

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The 'cone has the floor Smile

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nosecone · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 7:30 pm

drwaddles · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:19 pm

I'll get a photo up in five Wink

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drwaddles · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:31 pm

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People who talk out their asre usually have bad breath.

7334 · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:33 pm

Yass "Tramway"?

dasher · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 10:18 pm

I'll take a WS at Corowa.

I didn't come here looking for trouble, I just came to do the RP shuffle... break it down...

drwaddles · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 10:36 pm

Nobody even close yet, and dasher has headed the wrong way Wink

This one is a little tougher than usual I think.

People who talk out their asre usually have bad breath.

crisfitz · Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 1:00 am

One day I'll be able to have a go at these Crying or Very sad

But it looks very "narrow gauge" and it certainly doesn't look like anything here in the West. So I'd say it is southern Queensland

Maybe the old border crossing of Wallangara Question

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7334 · Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 5:33 am

I think crisfitz might be right about the narrow gauge and it being north of the border. But where - no idea

duttonbay · Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:05 am

WSITD - Goomeri on the Kingaroy line

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drwaddles · Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:56 am

The last three posts have been a good logical progression Smile

duttonbay is quite close but it is not on the Kingaroy Branch.

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drwaddles · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:09 am

Time for a clue?

It's a little known branch (I'd not heard of it until I reached this town and saw it on the road map) inland of Goomeri.

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duttonbay · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:20 am

Without loooking at a map, what about Jandowae? This was my first thought, but was rejected because the scenery didn't quite look right to my eye.

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penov · Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:03 am

WSITD using drwaddle's clueand a 1960 atlas - Proston ?