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Re: Suburban densities and rail service (was Re: Putting light rail in subway)
- Subject: Re: Suburban densities and rail service (was Re: Putting light rail in subway)
- From: jeptha@ntrnet.net (George Conklin)
- Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 10:54:10 GMT
- Newsgroups: misc.transport.urban-transit,alt.planning.urban,aus.rail
- Organization: Ntrnet Systems, http://www.ntrnet.net/
- References: <Pine.OSF.4.10.10004061720260.2086-100000@alpha.fdu.edu> <iIqM4.30$fG3.449009@news0.optus.net.au> <390238de@news.iprolink.co.nz> <3906681D.65A061E4@nmit.vic.edu.au>
- Xref: bclass.spectrum.com.au aus.rail:7065
In article <3906681D.65A061E4@nmit.vic.edu.au>,
david <david@nmit.vic.edu.au> wrote:
>
>David McLoughlin and Dave Proctor wrote ( and I condense ):
>
>> > > bogie swapping.
>> >
>> > You have your chronology all wrong. The through running came
>first, sometime
>> > around 1880.
>>
>> Even my grandparents weren't born in 1880, and bogie exchanges were the
>> norm when I was a kid in Melbourne in the 1960s.
>>
>> David McLoughlin
>> Auckland New Zealand
>
>Melbourne-Adelaide was untill the standard gauge a broad gauge
>link- no gauge
>changing.
>Sydney-Brisbane has standard gauge ( not sure of the dates though )
>
>Bogie exchange in Melbourne would have been for the standard gauge
>to Sydney.
>
>Regards,
>David Head
>
Suburban densities should be irrelevant for train service
since people should drive to a station for a short hop
through dense areas. But the dense areas themselves are
leftovers from earlier eras.
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