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Re: It's still academic



Boo Hiss: 610 mm is a main gauge; sugar tramways are not toys: I watched
100 wagon freights on these in the mid 1970s; Victoria still doesn't have
100 wagon freights.  Sugar railways had radio dispatching long before
others.  Also doo and lack of brakevan?

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Roderick Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

MattyQ <matticue@corplink.com.au> wrote in article
<36ca90d5.0@news.bris.corplink.com.au>...
> David Bromage wrote in message <0ivy2.8$FM2.502224@news0.optus.net.au>...
> >The Queensland DH class can boast the same thing and more.
> >1067mm gauge: QR
> > 900mm gauge: Former SECV
> > 762mm gauge: Puffing Billy
> > 610mm gauge: Various sugar cane lines
> Yes, but I was refering to MAIN gauges as opposed to cane tramways and
> preservation railways etc.