Hi Gadge,
I remember a news report covering floods showing a 44 class bullnose locomotive very slowly going over tracks suspended in the air from track bedding being washed away! Some were a few metres long from memory and visibly flexed but held. Can you imagine them allowing that these days?

I never knew there were different thicknesses of track itself for railways. I have seen thinner rail used for secondary uses in boat ramps and mine shafts but never knew the same rail network used varying grades of track.

Last edited by Mowerfreak; 11/02/21 11:22 AM.
Ahh, if only victa had kept producing the thumblatch catcher series, they would be in better shape today!