Re: Mistakes of 100 years ago

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

David Johnson (trainman@ozemail.com.au) wrote:
> Maurie Daly wrote:

> > >> 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.
> > Thru running of a limited set of locomotives commenced before but it was
> > pretty restrictive, 81s,422s and some 80s , although there may have been some
> > 421s for a while.

> It was limited to the locos which were fitted with Victorian vigilance controls (different to NSW)

And, to a lesser extent, those which could make the trip without needing
to stop for fuel.

Cheers
David