Re: Far northern tilt train on schedule

[Railway Rasputin3 <james_ccj@my-deja.com>]

In article <39c73852$0$26525$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au>,
  "Dean A Stalker" <dstalker@dingoblue.net.au> wrote:
> Very unlikely that the overhead will continue to Cairns. The Cairns to
> Rockhampton section will need to be upgraded though to accomodate the
Diesel
> Tilt Train if speeds of up to 160km/h need to be reached.  This
involves
> curve easing and resleepering the tracks which is very costly.
And if the electrifrication extend from Rocky to Cairns it would be
very costly. Firstable Rockhampton's Denison Street section woud be
difficult to accomadate equipments. Also electrifrication can only
justify in area with high volumn traffic like QR's Central Qld Coal
lines. The already wired section on North Coast line but with low
traffic vloumn between Gladstone and Gympie North cost too much for QR
and QR is planning to introduce diesel loco haul on NC line freight,
transfer 3900 class electrics to Central Qld coal lines.



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