Re: NARROW TO STANDARD gauge

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

Sorry,
I forget to mention. "PAX" is code for passengers. I think the
aviation world used the term first.

Cheers
Peter Cokley 


On Sat, 12 Dec 1998 10:57:40 GMT, petan@ion.com.au (petan@ion.com.au)
wrote:

>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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