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Username: andy_pullar
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, April 17, 2005 - 05:36 pm: | |
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Rotterdam CS dep.08:39 - temporary alignment(1)- Konings Harbour lift Bridge - temporary alignment (1) - temporary Rotterdam Zuid station (1) - Oude Maas Bridge - Dordrecht - Moerdijk Bridge - Lage Zwaluve - "Halve Zolen Lijn" - Oosterhout Weststad Industrial Estate (reverse) - Lage Zwaluve - Shell Moerdijk Gates(reverse) - Lage Zwaluve (reverse) - Dordrecht - Zwijndrecht - Kijfhoek Yard track CA signal 54 (reverse) - Zwijndrecht (2)(reverse) - Kijfhoek Yard - Barendrecht Vork - Waalhaven Zuid ECT Terminal (reverse) - Barendrecht Vork - Ijsselmonde Yard - Feijenoord Yard (3) - Brede Hilledijk - Veerlaan - Steinweg Handelsveem (reverse) - Brede Hilledijk (reverse) - Tolhuislaan - Hanno Stevedoring Co Gates (reverse) - Feijenoord Yard - Isselmonde Yard (reverse) - Rotterdam Zuid (1) - Koningshaven and Maas Bridges (1) - Rotterdam CS arr 17:05.
(1) The line between Rotterdam CS and Rotterdam Stadion was re-aligned temporarily to make way for the construction of the rail tunnel to eliminate the Maas and Koningshaven River Bridges. Rotterdam Blaak and Zuid stations would be demolished when the Tunnel was opened and replaced by undergruond stations. The nose of EMU 1205 was displayed vertically at the Tunnel visitor centre visible from Blaak station.(2)The train should have continued to the Van Leeuwen Buizen Siding on the Zwijndrecht Haven line. Unforseen Operational difficulties when the train tried to access the Branch meant this didn't occur.
(3) The lines accessed from Feijenoord Yard ran through the old quarter of Rotterdam known as the Katendrecht - infamous for the services that could be obtained when the Town Centre docks were in their heyday. |