Re: Steepest train/tram line

[G.Lambert@unsw.edu.au (Geoff Lambert)]

"Ron BEST" <ronbest@bigpond.com> wrote:

>BTW, on a (vaguely) related subject, I heard that when Metrication hit the
>Aust. railway systems, Victoria refused to relocate their mile posts to
>become kilometre posts, but invented a thing called a "railway distance
>unit', equal to 1.61 kilometres!

They called a "mile-post", abbreviation MP in all the railway
documents, a "Measurement Post", so the abbreviations stayed the same.
Then they expressed distances as MP230 plus 450 metres.  A sillier
thing has rarely been seen (but I could be wrong)

Geoff Lambert