Australian screenshots

[ElStoko]

Liverpool Range, 1955

3C. Blandford village

While the Liverpool Range route is on the Main North line, the railway, highway and Pages River corridor runs more West than North through Blandford. The village is split by the corridor into a North settlement on the river plain and a South settlement above the river level on a foothill of the range.

Looking NW along the highway over the North village.

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General store and rural fire brigade shed, North village.

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Highway bridge over Pages River.

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Tree-lined residence, North village.

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Blandford Primary School, with headmaster's residence, on the highway at the western edge of North village.

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St Luke's Anglican church and hall. The church is actually a brick structure. Too much to do to bother with a custom model and nothing I could find on the DLS comes close to the real church.

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Community hall, South village

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Site of vehicle dump, South village

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[Rohcool323]

A very rare triple B classes lead a grain train

 

[Rohcool323]

B80 and 76 on a quarry train pass T381 and 363 on a comeng transfer

 

[Y112]

These shots are unhinged

 

[Rohcool323]

A66 passes S302 just outside of Geelong

 

[epa]

3C. Blandford village
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Blandford Primary School, with headmaster's residence, on the highway at the western edge of North village.

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Hey ElStoko,

A million apologies for quoting a pic, but what is the paved road asset in the foreground in this picture? I can see where it would fit very nicely in a few routes I'm working on.

Thanks
Matt

 

[ElStoko]

Matt, the road asset is <kuid2:368725:30157:1> 'Primary 2L,8m rural road, sealed, double yellow line, clean, 40mph (65km/hr)', one of a series that can be searched using a Content Manager custom filter of Author 'ElStoko' and Name 'rural road'.

 

[epa]

Matt, the road asset is <kuid2:368725:30157:1> 'Primary 2L,8m rural road, sealed, double yellow line, clean, 40mph (65km/hr)', one of a series that can be searched using a Content Manager custom filter of Author 'ElStoko' and Name 'rural road'.

Awesome, thank you so much!

Matt

 

[FootplatePhil]

From the "NSWGR Eugowra Branch Model Railway"

Trajere

Canowindra

Nyrang Creek

 

[Forester1]

Looking great Phil!

 

[Rohcool323]

A78 with a short grainie

 

[Rohcool323]

 

[Y112]

tren

 

[H222]

Jamie

 

[ElStoko]

Liverpool Range, 1955

4A. Murrurundi railway yard

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In their wisdom, New South Wales Railways did not build a signal box with a commanding view of the yard at Murrurundi. Instead, there was a small frame (12-lever Frame A) on the Up end of the station platform. Frame A did not directly switch any points in the yard. It had levers that released Annett keys when pulled off normal and levers that enabled remote releasing switches that held Annett keys. The yard was busy in 1955 due to it being the base for banking operations over the Liverpool Range. Shift staff were required to unlock with Annett keys the 11 yard lever frames (Frames B to L) so that protected points could be operated.

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The above screenshot of Frame A was taken in Surveyor to show the blue track by which safeworking officers (represented in game as a vehicle asset traversing invisible track) move over the yard. The trigger on the blue track, when tripped by entry of a safeworking officer, opens up the operating console for Frame A. The 4 blue levers at the centre of Frame A are Annett key releasers. The 2 outside levers of the 4 enable releasing switches. The 2 inside levers of the 4 store Annett keys in receptacles at their bases. The keys can be extracted when these 2 levers are pulled off normal.


Below are 2 shots showing detail of the yard frames and associated equipment. The first image shows Yard Frames J & K that were unlocked by Annett keys available from the releasing switch located inbetween them. Each lever frame has just 2 levers: a blue facing-point lock lever with an Annett-keyed locking box at its base and a black point-switching lever. The facing-point lock asset is animated but the lock and lever animations are not synchronised. The second image is of Yard Frame B and associated Releasing Switch B. The Annett key seen in the releasing switch cannot be removed until Frame A Lever 5 is off normal.


If a player who has taken on the role of safeworking officer attempts to operate lever frames without keys or contrary to configured interlocking, the operation fails and a pop-up message is provided to the player.

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When Murrurundi station opened in 1872, it was the terminus of the Great Northern Railway. It remained the terminus until 1877 when the section over the Liverpool Range to Quirindi was opened. If you count the first 6 cantilevered awning supports in the image below, you have an estimate of the extent of the station buildings in 1872, After an expansion at the Up end in 1878, the original building was utilised for a refreshment room. While no longer the terminus, trains paused at Murrurundi for engine servicing and attachment of an assistant loco, so passengers had time to avail themselves of refreshment. The refreshment room was long closed by our route model year, 1955.

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Off the Down end of the platform was a water crane supplied from a covered water tank. The ganger's office is shielded by a hedge.

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At the Up end of the yard, water was provided to the main line and the no.2 Down siding from a jib attached to a parachute water tank. The Up starting signal had to be cantilevered to provide sighting around the obstacle of the parchute tank. The departmental house is nominally on Polding St, but the front door faces the railway and has a path onto railway property.

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The goods shed was located at the Down end of the yard adjacent to the Albert St level crossing. The gatekeeper's cottage is at the top centre of the screenshot. I wonder if the gatekeeper bothered to close the gates for every light-engine movement between the loco depot and middle of the yard. Perhaps a warning whistle and passage at slow speed was enough in the 1950s.

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[FootplatePhil]

More great shots and intriguing operational details ElStoko. Do you plan to upload your route and custom assets at some point?

 

[H222]

Jamie

 

[barisbeer]

Cheers, Ryan

 

[ElStoko]

More great shots and intriguing operational details ElStoko. Do you plan to upload your route and custom assets at some point?

Yes, Phil, the route and custom assets will be freeware releases on the DLS. Many of the custom assets have already been released. Route building in the section from Wingen to Ardglen requires the completion of Murrurundi township - only the area bordering the railway is completed so far - and Ardglen quarry. The section Ardglen to Braefield is complete to the outskirts of Willow Tree. None of Willow Tree township is done. My thinking is to release Wingen-Ardglen in advance of the complete route. Sessions for Wingen-Ardglen can illustrate banking operations over one side of the Liverpool Range. No session development has taken place as yet.

 

[PGibbons]

Elstoko. great news that this section of the Northern Line is under construction. Having just returned from QLD via the New England Hwy we stayed at Murrurundi and listened to the coal trains running up and over the Nowlands Gap all night. Ive started on the Tamworth to Armidale section of the Northern line which will merge with my GNR Armidale to QLD route. Maybe we will have a large section of this line available one day.
PG