Re: Passenger services and the Moss Vale - Woolongong line.

[ratso_101@hotmail.com]

In article <6fpsj5$3l8$3@gruvel.une.edu.au>,
  dbromage@metz.une.edu.au (David Bromage) wrote:

>
> Xplorers and Endeavours are pretty much the same beasts so there shouldn't
> be any problem.

True. Countrylink actually ran trials on the Xplorers over this line
(tests such as a single traction engine running in a two-car set up the 1 in
30 grade) and also have publicity photos of the Xploders taken near Robertson
>
> Countrylink could divert XPTs and Xplorers, but the problem would be
> finding crews qualified to work that line.

For the Xplorers,I couldn't see why Moss Vale and Wollongong crews could work
them- as you said they are more or less the same mechanically (and driving
positions)



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