Re: Lets Standardise instead!

[gonoNOCRAP@bigpond.com.au]

On Sat, 13 Mar 1999 05:20:35 GMT, dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David
Bromage) wrote:

>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
Track speed Newpot to north geelong C is 115 KMH and is not riding to
bad in a NR  union has speed pegged to 80 KMH a/c they want distant
signals !!
regards Paul Johnston.