Indooroopilly - crossing upgrade

[ozbob]

The points and crossovers from the mains to the subs are being upgraded.









Photographs mufreight 12th April 2010

[cartel_brisbane]

Ah, excellent photos.

[somebody]

With a higher diverge speed?  Or are they just replacing life expired components?

[ozbob]

Standard crossings, just replacement by the looks of things.

[somebody]

Which isn't really an upgrade, I'm afraid.

[mufreight]

While it is not replacement with higher dirvinging speed turnouts it is an upgrade in that the crossings are being realigned and replaced with heaver components on concrete sleepers.
Pedantic nitpicking does not diminish that this is an upgrade.

[somebody]

So, an upgrade in the sense of lower maintenance rather than better operationally then.

[mufreight]

An upgrade is an upgrade for whatever reason, as for higher speed turnouts one look shows that there is not sufficent room to replace the previous pointwork with turnouts with a longer lead and a less angle.

[Golliwog]

Do you really need a high speed turn out anyway? It's right after/before the station depending which way you're going so the trains will be going slow anyway.