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Park Avenue crossing - Adamstown Belmont railway - Fernleigh Track
Photo Ref: 21150
Creator: Webber, Mr Jim
The last passenger to Belmont, CPH 17 is seen crossing Park Avenue Adamstown on the afternoon of Holy Thursday, 8 April 1971. At this time the crossing was only protected by a Stop Sign. Plans for flashing lights and warning bells dated from at least June 1965. In August 1972 flashing lights and bells were promised following a car being struck by a coal train in May 1972. The Park Avenue Crossing area was altered in the mid 1990s. The passage of the former line was blocked off towards Adamstown. As at 21 May 1995 the construction of a roundabout was underway to the immediate east of the crossing. By 27 May 1995 the much sort after but by then superfluous flashing lights and the sole bell on the westernmost light, had been removed. Just up from the crossing a coloured light signal had been installed to control trains off the branch line and onto the main line. This signal had been removed by October 1994 but the metal cabinet once containing it’s switch gear still remains.(As at May 2013.) Associated Photo; Late Jim Webber from “Adamstown via Fernleigh”.
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