Comments on: New South Wales coal mines undermining road and rail https://wongm.com/2022/11/coal-mining-nsw-land-subsidence-bridges-railways-tunnel-telephone-cables/ Marcus Wong. Gunzel. Engineering geek. History nerd. Mon, 23 Jan 2023 09:01:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Road trip to New South Wales - Waking up in Geelong https://wongm.com/2022/11/coal-mining-nsw-land-subsidence-bridges-railways-tunnel-telephone-cables/#comment-860867 Mon, 23 Jan 2023 09:01:06 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=1454#comment-860867 […] Coal is big business up in New South Wales. […]

]]> By: Marcus Wong https://wongm.com/2022/11/coal-mining-nsw-land-subsidence-bridges-railways-tunnel-telephone-cables/#comment-854880 Wed, 02 Nov 2022 10:57:03 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=1454#comment-854880 In reply to johnb78.

I’d read about the Selby Diversion before – I guess the difference with the Redbank Tunnel diversion is it was designed to the same ‘goat track’ standards as the rest of the Main South line.

]]> By: johnb78 https://wongm.com/2022/11/coal-mining-nsw-land-subsidence-bridges-railways-tunnel-telephone-cables/#comment-854875 Wed, 02 Nov 2022 10:40:46 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=1454#comment-854875 The Redbank Tunnel diversion here reminds me of the UK’s (technical) first ever high speed rail line – amazingly given what’s happened since, opened within the last 40 years:
https://www.networkrail.co.uk/stories/the-architecture-the-railways-built-the-selby-diversion/

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