I've seen diamond crossings, and even the recent development of bump-over diamonds, but this "drawbridge" crossing on a pair of Queensland, Austrailia narrow-gauge RR's is a new one on me, though when you see the equipment on the smaller road it may begin to make sense...
---PCJ
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Needs this music to go with:
Mitch
Looks to me like a lot of trouble, complexity, and expense (not to mention risk) to no good purpose. Obviously, someone thinks it necessary, but durned if I can figure out why!
I had read about this crossing before. To the extent I still remember what I had read, the main narrow gauge (1067 mm) line is regularly used for coal / grain trains but the even narrower gauge (610 mm) is mostly used during the sugarcane harvesting season running between July & November.
So it makes sense to have this removable crossing & not have a diamond where these 2 different gauges meet when one of the lines only sees seasonal traffic.
These are just my opinion,
Naveen
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