Re: Steam builds for Alice to Darwin rail link

["James C" <jamesccj@optusnet.com.au>]

200km loop????????

So you need to wait 3 hours for a crossing???

Cheers
James





Grahame Ferguson <grahamef@users.mcmedia.com.au> wrote in message
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> >
> >Maurie Daly wrote in message ...
> >>In article <392e7a52$0$2638@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au
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> >>I sure hope that there is more, a lot more than 1 train a day.
> >>This line will need around 30 trains a day to simply break even,let
alone
> >earn
> >>the projected 18% return after tax ,estimated by the consortium.
> >>$700 M of private capital for 1 train a day ,you gotta be kidding.
> >>
> >>Md
> >
> I was told by a former rail executive, that in costing and planning for
the
> Darwin to Alice Springs line that they planned for crossing loops at 200
km
> intervals!!!, This was due to the predicted low volume of traffic
initially.
> This is all very fine, but you would not want to be on the Ghan and have
to
> be waiting for a late running freight.
> The track weight is going to be 94lb to cut costs!
> I hope that I am wrong on what I have been told, but the person who told
me
> was VERY reliable.
>
> Regards, GF.
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