Re: Notes on Standardisation

["David & Jan Winter" <winterd@icenet.com.au>]

Why no double stack on 1067mm gauge? Something intrinsic in dynamic
stability on a
narrow track?

DW

David Bromage wrote in message <67CK2.10$3h5.370470@news0.optus.net.au>...
>Of course, 3'6" could easily have been the Australian "standard" gauge. IT
>would also have been much easier to dual gauge the existing "standard" and
>broad gauge track if necessary. Also no loading gauge problems. The only
>possible problem might have been an inability to double stack.
>
>You only need to look at what has been done in South Africa and Japan on
>narrow gauge (and lately in Queensland) to see that it would not have held
>us back.
>
>Cheers
>David