Re: Rail services return to Cooma

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

 Therefore, I
Hi David,

I tend to agree with your suggestions as the highway would be full of
buses all travelling over the same piece of road all the way to the
snowfields. It sems logical to combine these buses into one unit
[train?] and achieve economy of scale!

To get an idea of the speed ability of an XPT on the line south of
Joppa JNT you would have to look up an old timetable when the XPT went
to Canberra.


Cheers
Peter Cokley


>reasoned, was there the possibility of running a higher speed train
>(much faster than road) say as far as Cooma, before changing to buses
>for transport to the various resorts/fields. Of course the time of the
>train journey would have to be significantly shorter than by road to
>counter the need for a change in mode.
>
>The trip to the snow from Sydney is a 6hr-ish journey by road from
>memory, and I thought the possibility of cutting a bit of time and
>effort off this could be acheived.
>
>Anyway, thanks for info!
>
>DB.
>
>
>petan@ion.com.au wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> The bus could take you directly to your snowfield accommodation and
>> you probable would get there a lot faster than the train to Cooma than
>> try to organize a bus to the snowfields.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Peter Cokley
>> 
>> On 12 Dec 98 21:34:58 GMT, "David Bennetts" <davibenn@pcug.org.au>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> >
>> >
>> >David Bradshaw <alkdrmc@ozemail.com.au> wrote in article
>> ><3673614F.5739@ozemail.com.au>...
>> >> For what reason was the Cooma line closed in the first place? It would
>> >> appear to service a large area of Southern coastal NSW.
>> >>
>> >> Furthermore I understand a weekly train used to run to Cooma during the
>> >> snow season - surely this (albeit seasonal) service would be a passenger
>> >> drawcard, considering the drive and the nature of the roads to the snow
>> >> (although admitadly a road journey is still required to get from Cooma
>> >> to say Jindabyne.
>> >>
>> >
>> >Passenger services were withdrawn because there were only a handful of
>> >people using the service.  The daily DEB set service would typically carry
>> >about half a dozen people in either direction.  With snow season services,
>> >running one train each weekend for possibly eight weekends a year (now
>> >there's no carriages to make up a train anyway) wouldn't help much.
>> >Freight lingered on for a few months on the line with a once a week
>> >service, until one of the wooden bridges was condemned.
>> >With virtually no passengers and no freight, there was really no reason to
>> >spend millions on rebuilding life expired bridges.
>> >
>> >David Bennetts
>> >Canberra
>> >