Re: Mexican railway (Melb - Wagga)

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"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