What is wrong with Sprinters (was: Mexican railway (Melb - Wagga))

["Peter Berrett" <pberrett@optushome.com.au>]

What is wrong with Sprinters?

cheers Peter

Dave Proctor <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> "Peter Berrett" <pberrett@optushome.com.au> wrote in message
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> > Aren't the Victorian sprinters capable of reasonable speed?
> >
> > One could take the broad gauge sprinters that go to Albury and regauge
> them
> > for standard gauge work. It would be a little bit more fiddly using the
> > single standard gauge track to Albury for Albury/Wagga services but
> equally
> > one is not running services up there every hour. If demand did pick up
as
> a
> > result of this change one could always regauge one or both of the broad
> > gauge lines to accommodate the extra traffic.
>
> Melbourne to Geelong is bad enough on a Sprinter, Melbourne to Albury was
> woeful when I did it, Melbourne to Wagga Wagga would be dreadful - nobody
> would use it.
>
> Dave
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