April 2015

Newsletter

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EXTRA SPECIAL ISSUE

Wednesday, 15th April will go down as a red letter day in the history of the Oberon Tarana Heritage
Railway. In spite of all the doubters and pessimists, the Albion St level crossing was re-installed
successfully congratulations to Oberon Council for this achievement.
This special issue of our Newsletter is a photo documentation of the activities on that day which very
luckily was fine and sunny. Photos by Col Bembrick & Greg Bourne.
Marking out the road surface in
preparation for excavating

The million dollar machine

starts to munch up the road
surface

The excavation now across the full

width of the road

The trench is deepened

Pre-fabricated rail being dropped

into the crossing trench

Lining up the rail

in the trench

Settling the tracks into the hot mix

More hot mix between the

rail

Cleaning out
The finished job