Re: Double Stacking in NSW

Peter Ware (pware@ozemail.com.au)
Wed, 01 Oct 1997 08:53:04 +1000

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Ben Staples and Kim O'Toole wrote:
>
> I have been quite interested in the station upgrading in Sydney's
> metropolitan (or is ot metropolis) region of late. The stations seemed to
> be having their overbridges raised.
>
> Is this because the SRA/RAC wish to introduce double stacked trains through
> Sydney, or just some weird maintenance criteria impossed by some weird
> thinking engineer???
>
> Please help me
>
> Ben Staples
> Industrial Trainee
> Railway Services Authority

I would be amazed if double stacked containers ran into Sydney - so
would the commuters who would be left stranded at every station along
the route because the double stacked containers would have brought down
the overhead power lines.

Peter Ware ;->

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