Re: high speed tours (was: [VIC] R766 and R711 Ballarat tour.)

[James Brook <ajmbrook@ozemail.com.au>]

Christopher_Martin GORDON wrote:

> Same applies to the section Broadmeadows-Seymour and then the only place to
> cross trains between Seymour and Wondoga is Riggs Creek.  It would
> be hard to fit a train into the North East Broad Gauge on a weekend, unless
> you are running at 115 km/h.

What about the parallel run back from Albury on Good Friday next year. Won't the
overnight option be using the wooden cars? (therefore the parallel run would be
limited to 80kph) It is almost impossible to run wooden cars on this line so how
are they going to do it?

> Just for the record the speed around Dear Park on the double Rs to Balarat
> last Sunday was just under 120 km/h (about 30.5 seconds per km).

Are you sure about this? The speed limit is 100kph for normal R classes and
115kph only between Newport and Geelong for R711.

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