16 April 2025

10. The Ethanol and Sugar Sidings

 At the End of the Passing Siding on the lower level 2 sidings have been constructed.

At either end is a set of LGB 3 Way Points.

Each siding will have a separate loading facility, one being a bulk sugar loader and the other an ethanol loading facility.

The sugar and the Ethanol come from the Sugar Mill precinct via an underground conveyor for the sugar and an underground pipeline for the ethanol.

The original plan called for the construction of a bridge across the valley between the sugar mill and the main railway which would have allowed wagons to be shunted into the precinct.

When engineers did a feasibility study the found that the cost of building the bridge the cost far outweighed the benefit due to the small amount of traffic that would use it so a decision not to proceed was made.

This now puts the lower line into the shed through which it will run on a loop and exit out the other doors.

3Way at Shed End

3 Way at Passing Siding End

Sidings looking from the Shed

Sidings looking toward Shed

Looking along Passing Siding

 

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