Re: Sydney Harbour Bridge Questions

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

Daruwalla 2460 (daruwalla_2460@my-dejanews.com) wrote:
> MarkBau) wrote:
> > What I want to know is how would the NSWGR have run its trains if the test had
> > failed! :-)

> Well, there probably wouldn't have been much of the 'G' in NSWGR left to
> worry about the 'R'.

Regardless of the political ramifications, operationally it wouldn't have
been much of a problem in the short term. If you look at the locos on the
bridge, many of them didn't have tenders. They were all stored locos due
to the economic downturn of the time. 

Losing them wouldn't have resulted in any immediate problems for NSWGR.
The loss might have caused problems during WW2 as it's doubtful that
replacements would have been ordered immediately for the very reason that
they were out of service in the first place.

Cheers
David