Re: THE GHAN

["Derick Wuen" <cullend@webone.com.au>]

< Tell > wrote in message <374be975.3732116@news.ozemail.com.au>...
>Fact is, NOBODY can say for sure, because it was an
>unofficial "nick name" up until the seventies, and then
>ANR began to use the name GHAN in their working time
>tables, it was until then "The Fast Mixed".
>
>----Terry Burton
By the '70's the track speed restrictions were such that a name change from
the Fast Mixed to practically anything that did not promise to deliver speed
was inevitable. Progress across the NG could be described as stately at
best, a crawl at worst.