Re: Standardisation

["David & Jan Winter" <winterdspamtrap@spamless-icenet.com.au>]

This is TALGO technology, and I'm keen to see at least one corridor trialled
in Oz,
perhaps for an otherwise no-go freight opportunity. Maybe, once the private
VLF
and Westrail freight get going, we'll see some initiatives - can hope, I
s'pose.

DW

Ron BEST wrote in message ...
>Anybody know why sliding wheels have never been used, or even tried
perhaps?
>AFAIK, the (proposed) fancy/expensive Cairns-Perth pass. was to use this
>technology to go from 1067 to 1435mm gauge.
>(It saddens me deeply to stare down at dual gauge 1435/1600mm track, and to
>realize the devasting cost and negative effect on the growth of rail
>transportation that those seemingly trivial 6 1/2 inches have caused!)
>
>Rgds
>Ron Best.
>
>Ben Staples <98711576@student.hawkesbury.uws.edu.au> wrote in message
><7dhbnp$ofq@ob1.uws.EDU.AU>...
>>With all the opinions, comments, beliefs, etc etc concerning squeezing the
>>rails a little bit closer in country Victoria, I wonder if there would be
>>any advantage in squeezing the rails a bit further apart in Western
>>Australia. I don't know much about WA but I'm curious.
>>
>>Ben Staples
>>
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