Re: ABC News and the Overland >> the end is nigh.!
bill johnston (wajohns@tpgi.com.au)
2 Apr 1998 04:42:31 GMT
In article <mauried.152.352036D7@commslab.gov.au>,
mauried@commslab.gov.au says...
>
>In article <6fp7p0$pph$1@gruvel.une.edu.au> dbromage@metz.une.edu.au
(David Bromage) writes:
>>From: dbromage@metz.une.edu.au (David Bromage)
>>Subject: Re: ABC News and the Overland >> the end is nigh.!
>>Date: 30 Mar 1998 22:53:20 GMT
>
>>Neil Waller
snip
>>David
>
>Even on the sections of the new track where there are concrete sleepers
the
>speed limit is still only 80K.
>Nothing can be done to raise the speed limits to 110K until the dopey
ASW
>safeworking system is abandoned,and Train staff & ticket between
maroona &
>Pyreenees loop is abolished.
>Dont hold your breath for either.
>
>MD
>
I dont see that ASW and Train staff and ticket per say cause the speed
limit. I just think it is bureaucratic inaction. The track from Newport
to Geelong is in much better condition (65kg ? rail on concrete
sleepers) than the adjacent broad guage (45kg ? on timber sleepers) on
which V/Line run 130kph services.
Perhaps it relates to the very poor alignment which as others have said
is a series of tangent track joined by kinks.
Bill Johnston