Re: Sydney Light Rail

["Samuel Eades" <seades@bigpond.net.au>]

Peter Bollard <onk@magna.com.au> wrote in message
39E04AE0.709D0F29@magna.com.au">news:39E04AE0.709D0F29@magna.com.au...
> Are there any definite plans to run it to
> Haberfield or Ashfield bearing in mind that this would  seem to require
> it to use  the line taking heavy freight to Glebe Island.Would it be
> feasible ,safe and technically possible for it to share the line with
> the freight trains?

If a tramway started using the same lines as a railway, then that portion
(IMHO) would have to become a railway as well (the difference between a
tramway and a railway being that a tramway does not use any safeworking
systems). So the tram would become a train and therefore require radio
equipment amongst other safety gear, and the drivers would need to be
trained in the safeworking system used. The trams would need to be capable
of operating track circuits reliably. It would probably be possible and
safe, but perhaps not viable.

Sam