Re: Safety Slowdown

[Greg Rudd <grudd@mail.usyd.edu.au>]

Lourie Smit wrote:

> Today's Daily Telegarph has a half page article on speed restrici\tions
> which are alledgedly in place at 257 sites across the NSW rail network
> today, including a  40km/h limit on the new Olympic Park loop.
> The speed-limited sites are listed in an official circular to all train
> drivers obtained by the Daily Telegraph.
> The Weekly Speed Notice for February 6 to 10 produced by the Rail Access
> Corporation, includes restrictions which have been in place for a month or
> more.
> Currently 127 km of track are under restriction, compared with 95 km last
> January and 59 km last July, mainly outside of the CityRail network, on
> country tracks..
> The following nine restrictions are listed in a table included in the
> article:-
> 1. Granville to Cabramatta. 50 km/h between Granville and Merrylands (track
> under observation).
> 2. Granville to Cabramatta. 40 km/h between Guildford and Merrylands (track
> under observation).
>

I  know there are sections of worn rail at Yennora and at Guildford.  You can
see it as the train pulls up at these stations.  The rail head is absolutley
flat, with very little thicknes left to grind the rails.

> 3. Carlingford Line. 20 km/h between Clyde and Rosehill (evaluating signal
> visibility).
> 4. Olympic Park loop. 40 km/h (track under observation).
> 5. Main west line. 40 km/h between Strathfield and Burwood (track under
> observation).
> 6. Bankstown line. 50 km/h between Belmore and Lakemba (track under
> observation).
> 7. Main West line. 30 km/h between Stanmore and Newtown (track under
> observation).
> 8. Illawarra line. 30 km/h between Tempe and Sydenham (track under
> observation).
> Main North line (to Broadmeadow). 70 km/h between Wyong and Gosford(track
> under observation).

There are also a few on the East Hills line as well.