Re: Why is it called "up"?

[Mark Bau <markbau@altavista.com>]

> From: "< Tell >" <telljb@netozemail.com.au>
> Organization: From Home with Ozemail.
> Newsgroups: aus.rail
> Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 13:45:39 +0930
> Subject: Re: Why is it called "up"?
> 
> "HXP1" <hxp1@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Not in the railways.  Up is usually towards the capital city.  Down is
>> therefore travelling away from the capital city.  So a through train from
>> Melbourne to Sydney travels in the down direction as far as Albury, then
>> travels in the up direction.
>> 
>> Queensland is different.  Up is basically south.  So a train starting at
>> Wallangarra (QLD/NSW border) travels down to Brisbane, & keeps on going down
>> as it heads for Cairns.
> 
> 
> With GSR's expansion of the Ghan over to the East Coast
> on a national network through 2 States and a Territory,
> the use of up and down means NOTHING.
> 
> ----Tell
> << Remove net after @ for email reply. >>

Agreed, now that out insular little systems have broken out of their silly
boundries up and down mean nothing. Its time to go to "westbound",
"northbound"

I propose it as a new standard for this newsgroup.

Mark