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Re: Speedrail derailed?
David Johnson (trainman@ozemail.com.au) wrote:
> David Bennetts wrote:
> > 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.
> The timetable allows for 4 minutes IIRC. This can be shaved to 3 minutes if the
> driver doesn't screw around, and 2 minutes if he calls control from the mobile
> phone in the cab.
> > In Britain using conventional trains, they beat inter-city bus schedules by
> > significant margins. Here it is much quicker to travel Canberra/Sydney by
> > bus, despite rail being (normally) considerably faster in and out of Sydney
> > metropolitan area than is possible by road.
> Please define "much quicker". The Xploder does the trip in 4 hours. How long
> does a bus take?
3h 40m since the Federal Highway improvements were opened.
The X2000 did it in 3h 25m.
Cheers
David