Re: Newcastle realignment

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

How do they manage to fit all the trains at the moment that run on the line
with such crappy infrastructure?


Andrew Honan <ahonan@zipworld.com.au> wrote in message
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>
> 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 ...
> >
> >>Electrifying Macarthur to Moss Vale would be a useful starting point.
> >
> >
> >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.
> >
> >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.
> >
> >
> >
>