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Re: Mistakes of 100 years ago

To: ausrail@railpage.org.au
Subject: Re: Mistakes of 100 years ago
From: David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 11:25:31 +1000
Newsgroups: aus.rail
References: <6p3p0i$812$1@news.mel.aone.net.au> <mauried.237.35B587B0@commslab.gov.au> <35b6a838.1@139.134.5.33> <mauried.239.35B6CB55@commslab.gov.au> <6p742d$57l$2@news.mel.aone.net.au> <mauried.241.35B7CB8D@commslab.gov.au>
Reply-To: trainman@ozemail.com.au

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)

--
David Johnson
CityRail Guard
trainman@ozemail.com.au
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~trainman/

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