Re: Ararat BG connections

[Notagunzel <notagunzel@bigfoot.com>]

Krel wrote:
> 
> >>Your comments re ASW are spot on , an amazing amount of money wasted on a
> >>safeworking system that went no-where,and never was likely to go anywhere.
> >
> >So we may speculate as to ASW's future.  Will the ARTC want to keep it
> >after 1 July 99 when train control for the western line reverts to
> >Adelaide?  Keeping ASW doesn't sit easily with the stated desire to
> >reduce the different safeworking systems across Australia.
> >
> Hot rumour is that ASW (SAS) on SG will be replaced by TOs (AN Style)
> in the short term and probably CTC with axle-counters in the long term
> (2-4 years). Dunno how true it is but it sure sounds like an
> improvement.

Other side of this rumour is if ARTC pull the pin on ASW, then VLF will
do the same, and return back to Train Orders, at least on the Mildura
line.  Anybody wanna 2nd hand LSDU?

BC