Re: Rail delay complaints spark maintenance boost

["Russell Norton" <russelln@iprimus.com.au>]

"Paul Jones" <jonesclan@free.net.au> wrote in message
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> 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.


You would not have been doing over 115 Km/h anywhere.
Agree with the last point, the track is woefull

Russ.

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> Paul Jones
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> "David Johnson" <trainman@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> > 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
> > trainman@ozemail.com.au
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> > These comments are made in a private
> > capacity and do not represent the
> > official view of State Rail.
> > C.O.W.S. Page 11.
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