Station Master

Repairs to the track on the main line heading north out of the Cooma yard are progressing with the team finishing up at the northern limit of the precinct before they head up the cutting towards Yareen Road. Replacing sleepers in the yard can be difficult sometimes, with limited space to remove and insert sleepers without removing the rail due to adjacent tracks, signalling equipment and point rodding. In this section, the point rodding had to be removed temporarily to provide room for sleepers to be removed and replaced. Sections of this rodding had also been damaged over the [...]

After completing sleeper replacement between the Loco Shed and Station Platform to facilitate the movement of CPH Railmotors, our perway team have been able to turn their attention to the main line heading north out of the yard. Over the past couple weeks, the team have replaced over 20 sleepers on the main line and they continue to push north in the direction of Snowy Junction. Large amounts of dirt fill that was placed on track many years ago to facilitate rolling stock deliveries, has now been cleared from the track to allow sleeper replacement to continue. Unfortunately, we [...]

It's been a big week for the perway team who have completed the replacement of 20 sleepers across the southern end of the through road and main line, while also gauging, screwing and tamping another 10 sleepers that had previously been inserted on the through road at the platform and on loco road 2. It's been a great team effort this week from our volunteers to get these repairs completed. This section was particularly difficult due to it's location in a cutting with point rodding and signal cabling running down one side of track, and concrete drains on the [...]

Track repair and sleeper replacement continues in the yard at Cooma Railway Station with the team focusing on the southern end of the platform road. The team are installing 20 new timber sleepers in this section. Due to it's location in the cutting, access for machinery is limited so all the sleepers in this section need to be dug out and replaced by hand. Repairs to this section of track are important to allow our railmotors to move safely between the loco shed and the station platform. In addition to the sleeper replacement, our volunteers have also been removing [...]