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Re: RIP ASW?
- Subject: Re: RIP ASW?
- From: "Exnarc" <gwrly@netspace.net.au>
- Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 00:46:20 +1000
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- Organization: A customer of Netspace Internet
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WhaleOilBeefHooked <daproc@spambait.umpires.com> wrote in message
news:eVAo3.44$0i.510767@news0.optus.net.au...
> Krel wrote in message <37a2c8ba.6573771@news.netconnect.com.au>...
>
> >Why build loops 5km long if you are only going to run trains 1500m
> >long?
>
> To make it easier to schedule crosses. I have been saying for a long time
> (and people who work the line agree) that they should double track every
> fourth or fifth single line section on the North Coast. effectively, you
> would have say three normal length crossing loops, then one VERY long
loop,
> then three or four more normal loops, then another VERY long loop. It
would
> make the job of train control so much easier.
>
> DaveP
>
We can't get any money to fix the current system, how the hell would we get
money to build 5km long loops that would remain un used most of the day.
Bob.