Re: Lets Standardise instead!

[dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)]

Maurie Daly (mauried@commslab.gov.au) wrote:
> North of Seymour , its easy to simply close the BG line completely.

Why? Regauge it and the Up line south of Seymour and you've almost got
double track from Melbourne to Sydney. Just add a second track from Albury
to Junee. :)

> The only real issue is a platform for Euroa, and possibly Wodonga , 

Also Avenell, Violet Town, Springhurst, Chiltern....

> The platform at Seymour would need to either be extended, or dual guageing one 
> of the existing BG tracks to handle both BG and SG trains.

Regauge the Up bg line. Keep single bg to Seymour for the commuter trains.

> An economic analysis would have to be done regarding Benalla to Oaklands to 
> figure out whether it should be converted or closed.

Converted obviously, and extended further north. Ditto Tocumwal.

> With all VLP trains running on SG , and a total track upgrade to 60 kg/M rail 
> ,then pass trains could run at 160 KM/h, the whole lot of them .

There is the problem of level crossing protection.

> On a similar subject , Newport to Geelong C on SG is 60KG/M on concrete CWR 
> rail,so why arnt trains right now running at 130 km/h ?

VERY poor alignment.

Cheers
David