Re: Newcastle realignment

["Hubert Lam" <hubert@imap4.com>]

Is the current speed limit on suburban track 115km/h?


David Bromage <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote in message
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> nobody (dweebken@NOSPAM.yahoo.com) won a Nobel Prize for literature by
writing:
> > Dare I ask if your serious?
> > Are they really going to change the alignment more than a little after
all
> > this time?
> > This is exciting!
> > When?
> > Where's the info, is it online?
>
> It was one of Carr's election promises. Work is supposed to commence after
> the Olympics (March 2001, I think) with the entire project finished in
> about 2006. It's supposed to take 30 minutes off the journey using current
> rollingstock.
>
> What I posted was the current RAC thinking on how it should be done with
> the amount of funding promised. Of course, no money has yet been
allocated.
>
> I'm still trying to get information on the Wollongong line upgrade
> (supposedly a 14km tunnel) and the proposed Hurstville - Strathfield
> railway. There's also talk of a tunnel under the range between Murrurundi
> and Quirindi.
>
> cheers
> David