Re: [vic/NSW] Engineers urge $500m upgrade to eastern corridor

["f.u.i.t.b.e.t" <fuitbet@yahoo.com.au>]

Now you are really thinking!!!
All that has to happen is get them to spend the$.
The way to go every where!
The main sth line could go back to single line with those 20 km loops and
momentum 1 in 40`s.....a bit  of good train path planning and who knows.
"Dave Proctor" <david@spambait.proctor.net> wrote in message
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> "Maurie Daly" <mauried@tpg.com.au> wrote in message
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> > Also suggested is the modification of the NSW CTC between Junee and
> > Albury to allow running crosses, ditto for Telerah to Greenbank on the
> > Nth Coast .
>
> Just a thought - and I have no idea if it would really help, or how it
would
> work, etc - but if they were to connect two crossing loops together, so as
> to make say a 20km stretch of double track, would this make it easier to
> schedule trains as well as making them far more reliable, in that they
would
> not then have to sit in the loop whilst waiting to cross?
>
> You would not do it everywhere of course, but if there were four or five
of
> them between Telerah and Brisbane for example, you would just have to time
> the trains so that they would meet at some stage on the 20km loop/20km
> double track, which would have to be easier than timing them to meet in a
> 1500 metre loop.
>
> Dave
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