GrahamH

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Posted: 04 Apr 2009


Taken: 24 Feb 2009

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The former locomotive water supply tank at Meranburn in 1993.

I took this while at the FreightRail Train Radio Project. The original project design required a base station in this area and suggested bricking in an enclosure within the tower base and mounting antennas on the tank. I talked to the project management about its heritage value. It was decided after a while to use a standard hut and mast away from the tank. This was sited East (towards Manildra) which had equal vehicle access and wouldn't have a material effect on coverage.

Berny, tarboat have particularly liked this photo


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 GrahamH
GrahamH club has replied
Thanks Jaap. There were some others like this but most were square steel tanks on steel legs. There were some other styles too in small number.
5 years ago.
 tarboat
tarboat club
Nice work in saving it from the antennae.
5 years ago.
 GrahamH
GrahamH club has replied
Thanks. As I said on your photo, there are just some places where antennas shouldn't be.

I'd been past here a few times by rail but the project my first visit by road where I could look at it. After walking around it I thought 'this isn't going to happen'. So I built a case about costs to do this Vs doing a standard hut/mast provision, and included heritage issues. If you go to 'Satellite' on the location map you can see the tank and to the right, the hut & mast.
5 years ago.
 Berny
Berny club
Interesting tower, not very usual. I will post several other water towers in the next weeks ;-)
2 years ago. Edited 2 years ago.
 GrahamH
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Thanks for looking and the contact.
2 years ago.

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