Re: Indian Pacific passengers work up head of steam

["tony bailey" <mercuryworldtvl@one.net.au>]

"Maurie Daly" <mauried@tpg.com.au> wrote in message
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> Perfectly true , but in the case of a truck overturning and blocking
> the Hume Highway the highway would be re opened in a matter of hours .
> The WA line was closed for 3 days.
> In a vertically integrated rail regime where the rail owner is also
> the only rail operator ,then it doesnt matter if there are delays in
> re opening the line as it will only affect the rail operator.
>

Maurie -

A recent issue of Modern Railways pointed out that in a 1966 sleeping car
train derailment on the ECML in England, similar to the big one last year,
that the gangs had started putting the track back in 10 hours after the
derailment.

Last year, when the police got into the act (missing most of the evidence
because it was buried under ballast - the track workers had to show them!)
It took 10 days to start relaying!

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Tony Bailey
Mercury World Travel
Mercury Travel Books
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