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Re: BLs vs NRS

Subject: Re: BLs vs NRS
From: "Ben Staples" <98711576@feline.hawkesbury.uws.EDU.AU>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 20:48:23 +1100
Newsgroups: aus.rail
Organization: University of Western Sydney
References: <mauried.276.36EDBEA4@commslab.gov.au> <LxpH2.20$E52.545304@news0.optus.net.au> <36eef3e7.0@nap-ns1>


Grahame Ferguson wrote in message <36eef3e7.0@nap-ns1>...

*SNIP*

>The only section that required high horse power was Sydney to Lithgow with
>its 1 in 33s Valley Heights to Katoomba.
>2x44s could haul the IP from Lithgow to Sydney, but 3x44s were required
from
>Sydney to Lithgow.


Maybe what they should do is build a new crossing of the Blue Mountains. You
know, something along the lines of the Channel Tunnel. Make driving trucks
over the mountains illegal and force all trucks to go piggyback.

Ben Staples

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