A trip to western New South Wales, Australia saw me following the wires to old farm houses and along disused railway lines. I thought that this area had been cleaned out but to my surprise there were plenty to be found. Unfortunately the only glass were the small CD423's, but I did find porcelain that I do not have.
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Off the bitumen and onto the minor gravel roads that lead up to the many rural properties I came across many of these small porcelains on two wire branch lines. They are expoxyed onto the metal pin.
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Moving on from the small back roads and branch lines, we reached Moree where I followed the railroad tracks to Narrabri. The signal wires and poles are still connected but are not used today as the outback stations are all connected by modern phone links.
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Note the transposition points above. The picture left, is a grain handling terminal in the tiny township of Gurley. Between Moree and Narrabri there are 4 wires, but at this station there are six wires, 2 extra wires run out to the signals either side on the station. |
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The telephones shown here are in the signal shed, above left. They show the old manual wind up phone and the new digital push button. Both systems are operational.
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Moree is cotton country and very flat, the rail tracks, signal poles and power poles merge into the horizon. |
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Relics from a bygone era reach for the sky like forgotten statues. |
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