Re: Why hasn't Adelaide been electrified?

["John Wayman" <bushwalker@email.msn.com>]

The Glenelg - South Terrace line was electrified decades ago, while the
Glenelg - North Terrace line was closed for electrification, but was never
completed or reopened.


Cheers

John Wayman

Neil Waller wrote in message <35A022E9.84F54742@denr.sa.gov.au>...
>David Bromage wrote:
>>
>> Lachlan Smith (lsmith@senet.com.au) wrote:
>> > Does anyone know if the electrification of Adelaide's suburban network
has
>> > ever been proposed? If not, why not? I have often wondered this, as
>> > Adelaide's network is more extensive than Perth's, and only marginally
less
>> > extensive than Brisbane's, and both of these have been electrified,
leaving
>> > Adelaide as the only major centre without an electrified system.
>>
>> I understand the 2000 class DMUs were designed with conversion to
electric
>> tracion in mind, although it will probably never happen. The 3000s are
>> based on the Melbourne Comeng sets so they too were possibly designed to
>> take an overhead.
>>
>> Cheers
>> David
>
>
>The 3000 and 3100 class are diesel electrics.   Conversion to straight
>electric should be possible.
>
>There have been at least 2 proposals to electrify Adelaide.
>
>Goodwood station shows signs of one attempt, the trackbed for a
>connection
>from North Terrace to the South Terrace Glenelg line.   The subway once
>had an unused double track rail bridge to the west of the platforms,
>and the Brownhill Creek has, or had, the abutments for a bridge were it
>passes just to the west of the Forestville Basketball Stadium.
>
>Nothing came of the elctrification scheme (around 1919) and the bridge
>was removed only in the last few years.
>
>The next scheme I can recall was in the late 1960's, but nothing came of
>that either.
>
>Any advance on 2 attempts??
>
>
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>Neil Waller (nwaller@denr.sa.gov.au)
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