Re: Mistakes of 100 years ago

[dbromage@omni.com.au (David Bromage)]

Maurie Daly (mauried@commslab.gov.au) wrote:
> Even though we had uniform guage between melbourne and adelaide from 1920 , 

VR and SAR met up at Serviceton long before the 1920s.

> Exactly the same madness happened at Albury from 1962 when the SG line was 
> built till just prior to the creation of NRC when Countrylink successfully ran 
> the first XPT thru Albury without it having to change drivers.

At least through running of locomotives had commenced before that.

> It also doesnt explain at all why SA also went ahead with narrow guage for 
> large parts of its network,as did Qld and WA.

That was more a cost issue than anything else. Narrow gauge pioneer lines
are much cheaper to build.

Cheers
David