Re: Bradfield's Electric City Railway

["Werris Creek" <WerrisCreek@bigpond.com>]

Sorry to disappoint you guys, but the railways in Dr Bradfield's time were
under a lot more pressure to make money that they are now.

If you think that todays suburban system is under pressure to make money
then you are wrong. They may be rightly under pressure to run more
efficiently but 2/3 rds of the operating budget of the SRA is made up of
the CSO and the present Government at least is committed to continuing this
and if fact expanding the total CSO as the system itself is expanded as per
their recent announcements.

Regards

Werris
 
> 
> Bill,
> 
> You are thinking 1990's.
> Back when Dr Bradfield was doing his bit things wern't what they were
> today. Not everyone had cars and the railways were not under some stupid
> plan to try and make money, if they had to  no trains would of left the
> Sydney basin, In fact the line to Parramatta would of shut down
> completely. They built Zig Zag, if they did that they could do just about
> anything including the good doctors plans.
> 
> rgds
> 
>