Re: No A on 1719 Bacchus Maesh

John Cleverdon (clev@minyos.its.rmit.EDU.AU)
2 Oct 1997 02:40:29 GMT

David Bromage <dbromage@metz.une.edu.au> wrote:
: Yuri J Sos (steam4me@enternet.com.au) wrote:
: >With V/Line Passenger keeping only 4 A's, is the change on this train
: >temporary or permanent? And why are the locos running this train
: >freight allocated locos?

: At one stage there were only 3-4 As allowed to run passenger trains. The
: rest were riding so roughly they were restricted to 80km/h freight
: workings.

: Cheers
: David

AFAIK, some of the As on passenger traffic also had speed restrictions
(80 as well??). However, these weren't always obeyed - I remember timing
one of these As with a restriction on the Geelong line doing around 125!
(This was back in '92)

John

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