Re: Speedrail derailed?

["Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>]

"David Bennetts" <davibenn@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> My personal view is that a lot could be shaved off the existing timetable
> now using existing Xplorer sets by replacing the primitive electric staff
> safeworking between Canberra and Goulburn with train order working (at least
> 5 minutes at each of Queanbeyan, Bungendore and Tarago is wasted when the
> driver has to stroll over to the signal box/communications room, unlock the
> door, sink the peg and wrestle with the staff instrument to remove the peg
> for the next section, ring control to let them know where he is, record an
> entry in the book,  lock up again and saunter back to his cab.

You forget - get a cuppa and adjust his tie.