Re: Rail delay complaints spark maintenance boost

["Paul Jones" <jonesclan@free.net.au>]

When you go past level crossings soo fast that you don't see them, you realy
do notice when you slow down. Perhaps we slowed from 130 to 115, or we were
in a speed restriction or something. The point is, the track is woefull.

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Paul Jones


"David Johnson" <trainman@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
39A27039.A13FAC71@ozemail.com.au">news:39A27039.A13FAC71@ozemail.com.au...
> Paul Jones wrote:
>
> > When i caught the ghan last year from alice springs to syd, we left 4.5
hrs
> > late from alice, and we caught up 4 hrs by broken hill, 2 to adelade and
2
> > to broken hill.
>
> Huh?
>
> > (I never know NR's could go 120....). and the ride was dead
> > smooth from adelade to broken hill. Once in NSW, we slowed to at least
80,
> > and still I was finding it hard to sleep, the track was so bad. we
caught up
> > 15 minutes from broken hill to lithgow. If this isn't an indication of
bad
> > track, i don't know what is....
>
> How do you know you slowed to 80?   The track speed (which they usually
do) is
> 115.
>
>
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> David Johnson
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