Re: Media, railways and facts.

[Craig Haber <albatross@harnessnet.com.au>]

Tell wrote:
> Australian National Rail, Hmmm.!
> What's in a name anyhow, still a railway ...right.

A recent article in the "Weekly Times" (complete with picture of blue
and yellow T class) discussed rural standardisation in Victoria....in
some parts the track is so bad that trains have to slow from "150km/h to
40km/h".

Interesting at least to see that there is real concern about the two
guage network in Victoria....what a stuff up, IMHO the Adelaide SG
should have been seperate line Npt-North C, flyover the BG at North C,
then one BG and one SG to Gheringhap, single SG to Maroona, either dual
guage or (if you can't mount 60km/m rails as dual guage) gauntlet track
Maroona-Dimboola, single SG to the border and beyond.  Retain all
intrastate BG, cause minimal impact with the SG.  But no, not much
lateral thinking happens in Victoria, so we re-create all that is bad
about rail in Australia - seperate guages.

Cheers,
CH.
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