{"id":81041,"date":"2024-07-06T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T03:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=f2fab5f3a8764cd28196d37e81702332"},"modified":"2024-07-06T13:02:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T03:02:00","slug":"east-coast-layout-tour-pt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=81041","title":{"rendered":"East Coast Layout Tour – pt 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

 Visting Layouts, and Train stations – Part 2<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n

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Taking pictures of the Parramatta LRVs being tested at Carlingford, was an unexpected bonus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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After visiting the layouts at Batemans Bay, I had the entire afternoon, to get to my overnight stop at Kiama<\/p>\n

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I stopped at Ulladulla for lunch, and enjoyed the ocean scenery once again whilst eating the take-away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Rough seas from a persistent Tasman Sea low pressure system would later provide for some spectacular wave action<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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I re-encountered NSW railways at Nowra.  This is the end of the south coast mainline – although, as I have found, many modellers have extended it down to Eden and beyond.  I left the Princess Highway, and detoured along the industrial sidings besides the Shoalhaven river. Being a Sunday, not much was happening.  Taking the detour off the busy highway onto the coastal drive was pleasant. <\/p>\n

Kiama is the end of the electrified railway from Sydney.  My last trip to Kiama was in the 1980s, before the electrification, and I was interested in seeing what changes had been made<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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View south showing the carriage sidings, and a turntable.  The unelectrified line from here goes to Nowra.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Kiama once boasted a narrow gauge railway.  It served a ballast quarry at the top of the hill.  A double track line ran along Terralong Street, to an unloading facility in the bay.  Later, an extension was made to government railway unloading facilities in the yard directly south of the station.  <\/p>\n

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Colonial era buildings along Terralong Street<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Railway bridge over Terralong Street.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Site of the former port, where ballast was loaded onto waiting trawlers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The large seas mentioned earlier gave the Kiama blowhole some added pressure.<\/p>\n