Re: The future of broad gauge was Ouyen - Pinnaroo line

[dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)]

Rod (freight_man@hotmail.com) won a Nobel Prize for literature by writing:
> snip
> What are the benefits of years of disruption and BILLIONS of dollars to
> > convert the metropolitan network and give exactly the same service as you
> > get now? Suburban trains don't run beyond the end of their overhead wires,
> > so there's no need to regauge.
> snip
> > Who is going to pay for it?
> > It's been done before on country lines with relatively little traffic
> > (compared with suburban lines).

> Gee David! I gotta support you on this,for once!

What's this? Consensus is breaking out all over the newsgroup! Did
somebody put an extra bucket of boiler treatment in the water?

Cheers
David