Re: Trains to Newcastle.

[Michael Cuthbert <mcuth@sydney.dialix.oz.au>]

Ashley Wright wrote:
> While driving to Newcastle today to see my family a thought came
> across me. Why do trains to Newcastle take sooo long to get from
> Central to Newcastle? What is it that realy slows the trains down?? If
> it is the alignment of the track on the Sydney side of the Hawksbury
> why havn't the governments looked at introducing some form of tilt
> train. (Correct me if I am wrong but the alignment on the newcastle
> side, although curvy is actually good for reasonably quick running).

Trivia: The 1930 version of the Newcastle Flyer had a faster timetable
than ANY train running to Newcastle today. (Not sure if this includes
the XPT to Broadmeadows, but probably does).

Mike Cuthbert.