Re: Train Order working

["michael ostrowski" <mfo@netwit.net.au>]

Trains do close to 120 kms/h over the Orange-Broken Hill line, if the track
was as poor as you are saying we would not have the growth in East-West
traffic we are currently seeing. Train order working would cut time down as
trains would not have to slow down between towns, etc, to exchange the
staff, also saving fuel. Most of the track between Parkes and Broken Hill is
straight and would not require the level of maintenance that other lines do,
such as Sydney-Brisbane.

>From what I have been hearing, communications problems are the main thing
delaying train order working and any thing about the line being so poor is
just crap. Do any speed restrictions even exist on the line?

Robert Parnell wrote in message <7ss82u$6en$1@otis.netspace.net.au>...
>> > Unfortunately it does matter who owns the track.
>> > RAC arnt spending any money on Parkes to Broken Hill simply because the
>line
>> > is totally uneconomic to run , ie there simply arnt enuf trains using
it
>to
>> > ever recoup the upgrade costs in access fees.
>> > The only way to get the line upgraded is to get the Feds to pay for it
>which
>> > they wont do until its part of ARTCs network.
>> >
>> > MD
>>
>> 1. Train Orders have not been introduced due to some industrial issues
>still to be resolved.
>>
>> 2. The major difference in the track east of Broken Hill is that it has
>predominatly timber
>> sleepers, to the west its concrete sleepers. Believe me, ARTC would not
>put concrete in. The whole
>> basis of funding of railways is now different. It is unlikely in the
>extreame that ARTC will 'own'
>> any NSW track anyway.
>>
>> --
>> Bruce L. Greening
>> bgreeni@ibm.net
>> Townsville
>> Queensland, Australia
>>
>The moral of the story is that it doesn't matter that train order working
is
>not in place. Since the track is so poor, you wouldn't want to travel any
>faster over it anyway!
>
>Robert Parnell
>Rail Access/Argus Telecommunications Technician, Electronics Enthusiast,
>Lachlan Valley Railway Director,  NSW HO scale railway modeller
>E-mail:<rparnell@netspace.net.au>
>
>