Re: Some Questions

["Goldie" <goldicom@powerup.com.au>]

In reality the standard gauge stemmed from the rails being place 5' apart to
the outer edges on the Darlington/Stockrington Railway - the rails being 1
3/4" wide brought the internal gauge to 4'8 1/2" - not quite as romantic as
the horses arse theory.

NSW was originally going to be 5'3" in agreement with Vic.  A change of
engineers before construction began brought a change to std gauge.  Vic
already had rolling stock on the water so decided to remain with 5'3".

So the gauge fiasco is due to a change of mind - after initial sensible
agreement (even if it may be argued the original choice of gauge may not
have been the best - in hindsight).

Goldie

<signal_spotter@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> In article <39eccf29$1@news.iprimus.com.au>,
>   "Erk" <erk@erkV69.au.com> wrote:
> > Glen
> >
> > I think that the English may have decided what standard gauge was
> going to
> > be before we used it. We used it because they did and they built a
> lot of
> > our early trains.
> >
> There's an urban myth going around that the standard guage width is
> equivelant to 2 horses arses. Apparently back in the days when England
> was under Roman rulership, the Roman's built a lot of their
> infrastructure such as roads, sewerage etc. Anyway the roads were wide
> enough for the chariots which were pulled along by 2 horses side by
> side. These chariots caused ruts in the roads. Anyway when the Romans
> vacated England they left this legacy of roads. Therefore when the
> English built buggies for these roads they made them wide enough to
> follow the ruts. So as time progressed and the railway was invented the
> buggy makers became the carriage builders. And since all their
> machinery was set up for the buggies, they kept the same guage for the
> carriages. Therefore the rails were set at this guage. I don't know how
> true this is and it doesn't cater for broad guage or narrow guage.
>
> regards Ian
> Signal Design Engineer
>
> > In relation to drivers for CityRail, I think they want you to start
> at the
> > bottom (Customer service Attendant), be a guard for a while and then a
> > driver and not just be a driver to start with no other experience. I
> can't
> > confirm this (and it isn't what you asked but others may have thought
> of it)
> > but I've sure that David J or Tezza might be able to if they wish.
> >
> > --
> > Eric
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> > Glen O'Riley wrote in message <8shcok$vmi$1@bugstomper.ihug.com.au>...
> > |1. Why is the NSW guage track considered the standar guage?
> > |
> > |2. How strict are the medicals to become a driver of one of the city
> > |passenger fleet?
> > |
> > |3. Are there any decent simulations (beta or full) for both train
> driving
> > |and/or control (e.g. changing light colours and points)?
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