Re: Countrylink GM Sacked

["Barry Campbell" <campblbm@ozemail.com.au>]

Dave Proctor wrote in message <80cqv7$3eb$1@news1.mpx.com.au>...

>I really could not see an Xplorer service to Broken Hill. I was on the
first
>run of the re-introduced service, the one that had to terminate at Parkes
>due to a derailment at Kiakatoo (sp?)
>
>If running into cattle at low speed was enough to derail an 80 class, what
>would happen to a comparably light Xplorer at speed? (Assuming that TOW
>eventually DOES get implemented).
>
<snip>

The BH line was operated from 193? to 198? by the Silver City Comet. This
train was hauled by very light locomotives. As this train survived for 50
years an Xplorer does not seem that vulnerable.


Barry Campbell
(Sometime SM Roto)

(The Comet - gone but not forgotten)