Re: Victorian sg conversion

["steamfreak" <steamfreak711@yahoo.com>]

"Michael Kurkowski" <usenet.spam@gunzel.net> wrote in message
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> marivcru@labyrinth.net.au (Captain Warwick J. Somerville) wrote in
> <39ED93EA.1D7D1A35@labyrinth.net.au>:
>
> >> Very stupid move, IMHO. Increases the cost tenfold, and restrict the
> >> speed to 80km/h. You can't run passenger trains to Bendigo at 180km/h
> >> if it's dual gauge.
>
> >Why is there a speed restrict on duel gauge?
>
> Paranoia. Theoretically, the gap between the standard guage rail and the
> broad guage rail is the perfect size for a misplaced brake block. Assuming
> a carriage, wagon or locomotive loses a brake block and it lands between
> the two rails, the flange of the broad guage train can or will hit it,
thus
> causing a CityRa^H^H^H^H^H^Hderailment.
>
Surely the stuffup that this will cause at 80km/h will be horrific in any
case, why be paranoid about higher speeds?  Can't they just make thinner
brake blocks?

steamfreak