Re: NARROW TO STANDARD gauge

[petan@ion.com.au (petan@ion.com.au)]

Or turn the pax loose in the Treasury Casino. That way the QLD
treasury get more money! Countrylink, eat your heart out!

Cheers
Peter Cokley


On Wed, 9 Dec 1998 00:24:57 +1000, "Matthew Smith"
<matticue@corplink.com.au> wrote:

>Another alternative (although more costly) would be to arrive at Roma Street
>late in the evening and put the through passenger up at the Travellodge. The
>bogies can be exchanged overnight at Acacia Ridge.
>
>Incidently, the standard gauge bogies used on the GSPE are first ever
>standard gauge rollingstock purpose built for QR (despite the fact QR owns
>the standard gauge line to Border Loop).
>
>Regards
>
>Matt Smith
>Brisbane, Queensland
>matticue@corplink.com.au
>
>You can't slam a revolving door.
>
>petan@ion.com.au wrote in message <3670fab2.7013711@news.ion.com.au>...
>>Easy,
>>
>>keep the passengers busy on a sightseeing bus trip while the train
>>goes to Acacia Ridge where sone overhead cranes [gantery?] lift the
>>cars to swap bogies than haul it back to Roma Street and the
>>passengers get on.
>>
>>
>>I suppose the NSW lot will have to get used to the mighty QR rolling
>>into Sydneytown to collect another load of full fare paying pasengers!
>>It is hard to remember that the carriages are actually built on former
>>guard's vans!
>>
>>
>>Cheers
>>Peter Cokley
>>
>>
>>On Thu, 10 Dec 1998 11:00:47 GMT, thalytgv@my-dejanews.com wrote:
>>
>>>How did Great Southern Ocean Express train exchange its bogie in Acacia
>Ridge?
>>>is iit like "Talgo" style ?
>>>
>>>James
>>>
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