Re: R class to Bendigo on Again!?

Jim Gordon (j.gordon@bigpond.com)
12 May 97 18:48:33 GMT

David Bromage <dbromage@metz.une.edu.au> wrote in article
<5l6npo$sdi$3@gruvel.une.edu.au>...
> David Bromage (dbromage@metz.une.edu.au) wrote:
> >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.)
> >
> >
David, there are several vaiducts that have a speed restriction on them
for 'R' class as well as 'G' class locos. The reason for the dropping of
the speed on the 'up' track is due to it being left as 'bolt and fiskplate
rail, wilst the 'down line is continously welded rail.

Cheers Jim.