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Track, rail and sleepers

Track, rail and sleepers from Melbourne and the rest of Victoria

'VR3' pattern concrete sleepers at West Footscray

Thursday 14 January 2010 19:42 PM
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'VR3' pattern concrete sleepers, cast by Humes in 1981

Thursday 14 January 2010 19:41 PM
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Active gauge splitter at West Footscray Junction - the change in gauge requires the single point blade to be moved

Thursday 14 January 2010 19:26 PM
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Common Rail Transfer for the standard gauge at Maryborough

It switches the side of the inner rail to suit the dual gauge pointwork elsewhere

Friday 8 January 2010 09:59 AM
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One half of a gauge splitter at Gheringhap

Monday 14 December 2009 19:16 PM
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60 kg rail at Gheringhap, produced in 1994

Monday 14 December 2009 19:15 PM
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Trackbed graded, new sleepers in place, all yet to be ballasted

Sunday 13 September 2009 10:25 AM
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Rail joint on the resleepered track

Sunday 13 September 2009 10:23 AM
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Freshly resleepered dual gauge track minus ballast at Bell Post Hill

Sunday 13 September 2009 10:22 AM
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Gauge convertible concrete sleeper at Flinders Street Station, but with the fastening for standard gauge not cast in

Saturday 22 August 2009 10:58 AM
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Why does the only choices seem to be crap concrete sleepered track with mud holes, or timber sleepered that buckles on hot days?

Friday 14 August 2009 13:36 PM
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Concrete sleeper with Pandrol 'Fastclip' rail fixings

Sunday 5 July 2009 14:55 PM
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Rail fixings on a dual gauge concrete sleeper, 'Fastclip' fixings either side, a standard Pandrol clip is put in the middle

Sunday 5 July 2009 14:55 PM
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About 1 in 4 sleepers marked for replacement on the Portland line at Branxholme

Saturday 30 May 2009 17:36 PM
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Sleeper replacement underway at Hamilton

Saturday 30 May 2009 17:03 PM
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Five rail track at Appleton Dock - three rail dual gauge with a check rail either side

Saturday 23 May 2009 16:54 PM
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Numbers on the end of concrete sleepers manufactured by Austrak

Saturday 16 May 2009 17:11 PM
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Check rail on the East line at Champion Road, Newport

Sunday 25 January 2009 15:21 PM
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Flat bottom rail marked 'VR BV & Co IX 1882'

Friday 17 October 2008 09:44 AM
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Standard pandrol clip holding both BG and SG rails in 3-rail dual gauge track

Sunday 31 August 2008 10:00 AM
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Rail at North Melbourne marked 'VR Krupp 1888 V'

Thursday 28 August 2008 17:31 PM
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How long since the broad gauge was used? Gheringhap Loop

Wednesday 19 December 2007 13:50 PM
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Double headed rail as a mounting post for a switch near Brooklyn. The date code was 1871 (?)

Monday 29 October 2007 12:55 PM
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Markings of the web of a length of retired rail - 'AS 94 LB (1964) AIS 1/1969'

Australian Standard 94 lb/yard rail rolled by Australian Iron & Steel in November 1969 to a pattern from 1964

Saturday 27 October 2007 08:15 AM
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