Re: Mistakes of 100 years ago

["David Proctor" <daproc@spamsux.healey.com.au>]

Ben Staples <BenKim@bigpond.com> wrote in article
<35b6a838.1@139.134.5.33>...

> The three states that were originally proposing railways in the 19th
century
> (NSW, Victoria, SA) all agreed on a common gauge, Broad Gauge. Then, at
the
> last minute, a Scottish Engineer came from the UK to NSW and decided that
> the standard gauge is better, and changed NSW's gauge to Standard Gauge.
NSW
> stuffed it up. Victoria and SA went on the build the first inter-colonial
> link, with Broad Gauge. NSW was left behind.

Not true - they all agreed on STANDARD gauge - NSW then got an IRISH
engineer, who persuaded them to switch to Broad Gauge - Victoria and SA
followed suit - they THEN got a Scottish engineer, who persuaded them to
switch back - Victoria and SA were too far advanced with their rolling
stock orders to change.