Re: R class to Bendigo on Again!?

David Bromage (dbromage@metz.une.edu.au)
12 May 1997 09:19:49 GMT

Krel (krel4203@netconnect.com.au) wrote:
>All runs are R class attached in front of normal rostered diesels.
>8027 and 8029 are authorised to run at 115 km/h. (AFAIK R class are 100
>km/h on Bendigo line normally.)

IIRC, the speed for the R and D3 class was dropped to 80km/h on the up
line from Bendigo to Castlemaina a few years ago. This was around the time
the maximum speed for all trains was lowered to 100km/h. When was it
raised again.

Cheers
David