Re: Steepest train/tram line

[Bruce Greening <bgreeni@ibm.net>]

Krel wrote:

> On Mon, 07 Dec 1998 00:31:41 GMT, G.Lambert@unsw.edu.au (Geoff
> Lambert) wrote:
>
> >"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)
> >
> When they finally converted to metric they called them "kilometre
> posts" and the abbreviation became KP. Every where in Australia they
> call 200 kilometres 200km; in Victoria it is the 200 KP. This is even
> sillier when you get more exact 200.723 kilometres is described as the
> 200.723 KP (I looked but could not find the post;-)).
>

The Normanton - Croydon railway has never had the mile posts moved (as per the
rest of QR), and still uses miles

>

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Bruce L. Greening
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