Re: Re: [NSW] A few more questions...

[David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>]

On Sun, 6 May 2001 16:01:47 +1000, "David Bennetts"
<davibenn@ozemail.com.au> wrote:

>
>"Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
>3af4dcf3$0$25489$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au">news:3af4dcf3$0$25489$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au...
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>> At 40kmh?
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>
>Might be the case now, but trains in red rattler days used to regularly
>descend from the bridge at full pelt, often twice that speed.  Quite a
>dangerous practice given that it was all downhill to Wynyard. 

Very dangerous.  At that speed, they would have no hope of stopping at
a red signal.


David Johnson
trainman@ozemail.com.au
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~trainman/
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