Dimboola

Dimboola
Dimboola station. This great photo was taken by my son Craig

Saturday 28 January 2012

Stawell

The next two stations after Horsham are Murtoa; (another major grain receiving station), and Stawell. Stawell was/is a gold mining town, and this is reflected in the impressive brick station that use to serve the town. Associated with the main building is a small brick goods shed. There use to be two impressive signal boxes and had a nice set of operating road crossing gates: now all gone.
The rather unloved brick goods shed at Stawell.  
I have a nice set of photos taken in the 1980's on slides. Will post later.
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6 comments:

  1. Shelton D'Cruz21 April 2014 at 01:16

    Hi Andrew

    Nice layout you have coming along. Do you have a track plan?

    Cheers
    Shelton

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    1. Andrew21 April 2014 at 02:00

      Thanks Shelton.

      The only track plan I have is rather large to scan at 1 to 100. Will have to draw up a smaller one and post it later (just like my old Stawell photos).

      Andrew

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  2. Shelton D'Cruz21 April 2014 at 02:02

    No worries, also are you going to have low speed lights on your signals to enter the yard?

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    1. Andrew21 April 2014 at 02:11

      Hi Shelton.

      Hope to have a complete set of signals. Have fallen behind on them at the moment. Hope to purchase signal no:32, which is just across from signal no:30 which is already in place, this year. I have signal no: 26, which is facing the other way for approaching from Adelaide trains. Not yet placed though.

      Andrew

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  3. Shelton D'Cruz21 April 2014 at 22:11

    Hi Andrew
    What type of wagons will you be using to go into the Flour mill sidings? Will you also be having loaded wagons coming out?
    Cheers
    Shelton

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    1. Andrew22 April 2014 at 00:09

      Hi Shelton,

      Have not done any modelling at this end of the layout yet. Have a card model of the mill to try and determine size, though. As yet there is no track into the mill area (currently the track plan is for a more modern period. Don't know when the mill siding was cut). Photos around the 1980's show GH four wheel wagons on the mill siding and FJ flour wagons in the yard. I don't know if bogie hoppers ever entered the siding. I assume the mill closed during the 1980's as the original mill building was gone, in photos, by the early 1990's.

      Andrew

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