Re: Wodonga Rail relocation

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

"Maurie Daly" <mauried@tpg.com.au> wrote in message
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> Given that the current running time from Wodonga Loop to Albury
> Station is now only 10 mins , even if trains ran at 115 km/h all the
> way ,all you would save is about 5 minutes.

To Albury station. It is still not high speed running from Albury to just
south of Table Top. If theyy could run tat 115km/h all thwe way from Wodonga
to Table Top without stopping, it would have a vast impact on running times.

> In other words the saving in time is simply not worth re locating the
> line.
> Also, in NSW anyway , the XPT and other SRA trains always get priority

And that is wrong (and that comes from someone who has had to sit at places
along the North Coast because we have "lost our path".)

Dave