Recently new Towers have been erected along the Main Western Line with the first or last, depending on your direction of travel, about 100 metres on the down side at the Bathurst end of the 'New Station' at Lithgow.
The next I saw was at Clarence and another near Bell.
I am guessing these Towers are to finally provide effective radio Communications between Lithgow and either Penrith at least or Sydney after the Coronial Inquest into the collision between a Double Deck Interurban and the Indian Pacific in the Glenbrook area found there were huge 'blackspots' in the coverage by the radios in use at that time.
Having worked Valley Heights as a Signalman back in the 80's, the coverage barely reached Blaxland to the East and Falconbridge to the West.
Even with a base attached to an external antenna, most signal boxs range rarely exceeded a maximum of 5 kms with dead spots within that distance.
The next I saw was at Clarence and another near Bell.
I am guessing these Towers are to finally provide effective radio Communications between Lithgow and either Penrith at least or Sydney after the Coronial Inquest into the collision between a Double Deck Interurban and the Indian Pacific in the Glenbrook area found there were huge 'blackspots' in the coverage by the radios in use at that time.
Having worked Valley Heights as a Signalman back in the 80's, the coverage barely reached Blaxland to the East and Falconbridge to the West.
Even with a base attached to an external antenna, most signal boxs range rarely exceeded a maximum of 5 kms with dead spots within that distance.