Re: Indian Pacific Lithgow

[Mike.Roebuck@cobblers.datacomm.ch (Michael Roebuck)]

On 8 Feb 1999 01:57:50 GMT, matthew@mail.usyd.edu.au (Matthew Geier)
wrote:

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>
> Im not aware of any of the concrete sleepers used in NSW just 'crumbling'
>in normal traffic. However there have been quite a number of instances of
>derailed wagons being dragged many kilometers before the crew notices,
>leaving a trail of cracked sleepers. This is particulary a problem with
>loaded coal trains. One derailed axle might not get noticed for a while
>(ie until it hits a set of points and pulls the other axle off and parts
>the train!), and with a quarter of the weight of a load of coal bounceing
>along the sleepers, a lot break...
>

so is the real problem then a higher incidence of derailments down
under than in Europe? And if so, why, assuming it's not the fault of
the sleepers?

regards




Mike Roebuck, Basel, Switzerland  icq#7018252
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