Re: Train Order working

[keithm@happy.dca.gov.au (Dave Malcolm)]

In article <38042ee9.2147497@news.ozemail.com.au> telljb@OZozemail.com.au (< Tell >) writes:
>From: telljb@OZozemail.com.au (< Tell >)
>Subject: Re: Train Order working
>Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 02:58:56 GMT

>"Robert Parnell" <rparnell@netspace.net.au> wrote:
>>
>> Train Orders are definitely not in use between Broken Hill and Parkes yet -
>> I travelled through there Sun night/early Mon. morning on the East-bound IP.
>> Stopping every 20-30 minutes to attend to the current safeworking partly
>> adds to the rough ride as the train was bunched and unbunched at each stop.
>> The crew may not have been used to hauling passenger trains. There is also
>> the noticeable boundary of each track authority from Perth to Sydney -
>> clearly evident by the ride quality. By far the worst section is from Broken
>> Hill station to Sydney. Meals in the dining car were served without any
>> problem until NSW - watch your drinks are now spilling, the cutlery now
>> vibrates and slowly creeps to the edge of the table, bottles of wine falling
>> off the bar repeatedly. No such problems else where. A foreign passenger
>> commented that we were travelling at a much greater speed (at meal sitting
>> after Broken Hill.) I timed the train and we were travelling around 120
>> km/h - the same speed as the Nullabor, but much more noticeable on the
>> different quality of track.



>The sooner that track comes under the ARTC the better.

It doesn't matter who owns the track, aslong as they spend money on it. RAC 
obviously aren't.

Dave Malcolm



>----Terry Burton
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