Re: Track Quality and ride

[Railway Rasputin II <bob@fastlink.com.au>]

It's still making the noise around Arncliffe.

rgds

Matthew Geier wrote:
> 
> In article <38f32177$0$11897@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au>,
> Hubert Lam <hubert@imap4.com> wrote:
> >From experience I find that only new or "newly grinded' rails make this sort of noise when the train
> >passes over.
> >
> >
> 
>  The sound on the Illawarra Local persisted for nearly a year after I last
> saw the grinders there at work.
>  They haven't installed head hardened rail on the IL have they ?. Maybe
> harder steel is keeping the grinding marks longer. Previous recoloections
> of grinding work, had the 'wine' go away after a month or so, yet it persisted
> much longer on the IL
>  The IL sees the unit coal trains, between Carlton and Hurstville the IL is
> prone to corragations caused by the unit coal trains slowing down for
> Hurstville, where most of the time they get held so a passenger train
> can pass. Maybe they used head-hardened rail down the entire length from
> Wolli Creek to Hurstville.