Re: Newcastle realignment

[ahonan@zipworld.com.au (Andrew Honan)]

I agree with this...
The East Hills service is stuck in a time warp. Maintenance on the
line needs to be substanially upgraded and the Right of Way secured
for an upgraded service. 
The line needs to be upgraded to Continous Welded Rail and concrete
sleepers.
The line needs to be properly secured,  Access onto the corridor is
too easy for vandals. (Market gardeners on the corridor have only just
been evicted).

There needs to be much better asset management of these lines.....

Andrew

On Tue, 11 Jan 2000 23:47:58 +1100, "Bradley Torr"
<btorr@bigpond.nospam.com> wrote:

>
>David Bromage wrote in message ...
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>>Electrifying Macarthur to Moss Vale would be a useful starting point.
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>Yes! This would be excellent... but as you mentioned to me before, provision
>for electrification hasn't been made on the Main South past the Glenlee
>branch (bridge heights, etc.) I have always thought it odd that the Main
>South is the only intercity line not to have been electrified - surely if
>the Blue Mountains can be electrified (with a population catchment of about
>50,000), surely the southern highlands (without about 75,000 people) should
>be electrified as well? Now that Wollondilly Shire is officially part of the
>Sydney metropolitan area (and I would suspect Wingecarribee Shire not too
>far behind - or perhaps it could become a metro area in its own right) it
>might be something worth looking into.
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>Also, this would have the effect of greatly improving service regularity and
>speed for commuters in the south-western suburbs..... while people in
>Hornsby, Penrith and Sutherland can catch intercity services express to
>Central, while people in Campbelltown have to put up with the poor excuse of
>a rail line called the East Hills line... has anyone ever caught a train
>from Campbelltown to Central in peak hour? The train is full by Macquarie
>Fields! And even the so-called 'express' service stops at stations which it
>should just fly through, like Riverwood Padstow and Kingsgrove.....
>
>Oh well, my rant on south-western railway services should be left to another
>thread...
>
>Regards,
>Bradley.
>Who now lives in Wollongong and enjoys the V-set expresses up to Sydney.
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