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  Thread: ARTC's Infrastructure Australia Submission
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PostForum: Signalling and Infrastructure   Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 3:53 pm   Subject: Re: ARTC's Infrastructure Australia Submission
Yes there is a chance that infrastructure spending could take a front seat but influential minds need to understand how much of a stake rail could effectively and efficiently have in Australias land t ...
  Thread: EP brakes for freight vehicles
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Replies: 29
Views: 1206

PostForum: Locomotives and Rolling Stock   Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 3:15 pm   Subject: Re: EP brakes for freight vehicles
Personally I think running the cable/s through any wagon is the least of the problems , the main issue is backwards compatibility - aside from cost that is .

One thing I do remember reading was th ...
  Thread: EP brakes for freight vehicles
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Replies: 29
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PostForum: Locomotives and Rolling Stock   Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 7:25 am   Subject: Re: EP brakes for freight vehicles
Yes , the only way to go .
To be able to buy and implement an off the shelf system is far easier than developing something from new .

Actually something like this would be real good in higher sp ...
  Thread: ARTC's Infrastructure Australia Submission
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Replies: 19
Views: 649

PostForum: Signalling and Infrastructure   Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 7:10 am   Subject: Re: ARTC's Infrastructure Australia Submission
I think cheaper if they wanted to lengthen many loops on a corridor to say a 1500 metre standard as quickly and "inexpensively" as possible .

Funding is the real issue and increasing the minimum st ...
  Thread: ARTC's Infrastructure Australia Submission
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Replies: 19
Views: 649

PostForum: Signalling and Infrastructure   Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 9:39 pm   Subject: Re: ARTC's Infrastructure Australia Submission
5814 I had the chance to read through the Picton Mittagong Mainline booklet and it mentions a bit more about the attempts to bypass Picton on the way up the highlands .

I'm still trying to locate ...
  Thread: Freight Line on hold?
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Replies: 129
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PostForum: New South Wales   Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 3:48 pm   Subject: Re: Freight Line on hold?
As I mentioned a while back Cabrahole station should have been in the fork of Cabramatta junction to better service the locals - better access to Cabravale slop shop and not that far from the bottlo i ...
  Thread: Moss Vale: ST23: Wednesday 19Nov2008
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Replies: 7
Views: 453

PostForum: New South Wales   Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 3:26 pm   Subject: Re: Moss Vale: ST23: Wednesday 19Nov2008
A lot of people think it IS a bomb ...
  Thread: NSW: Southern Line Signalling Upgrading.
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Replies: 230
Views: 16178

PostForum: Signalling and Infrastructure   Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 7:23 pm   Subject: Re: NSW: Southern Line Signalling Upgrading.
The paperwork we got I think suggested that initially there would be no caution but that would change later on .
  Thread: United and EDI "Lease Units" , where are they up to ATM ?
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PostForum: Locomotives and Rolling Stock   Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 8:09 am   Subject: United and EDI "Lease Units" , where are they up to ATM ?
Burning question at the moment is where are the United GE and EDI EMD based locomotives up to presently .

Currently most operators are badly short of modern motive power and I'd imagine there's go ...
  Thread: 8-Car XPT Trial Train
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Replies: 38
Views: 2355

PostForum: New South Wales   Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 7:59 am   Subject: Re: 8-Car XPT Trial Train
Rail Cork are so cheap and nasty that I'm surprised they haven't just put sanding equipment on the LOCOMOTIVE units .

The term power car was just a cop out to get DOO on the maggot , the prime move ...
  Thread: 8-Car XPT Trial Train
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Replies: 38
Views: 2355

PostForum: New South Wales   Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 11:36 pm   Subject: Re: 8-Car XPT Trial Train
That'd be cheap wouldn't it ...
  Thread: ARTC's Infrastructure Australia Submission
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Replies: 19
Views: 649

PostForum: Signalling and Infrastructure   Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 11:27 pm   Subject: Re: ARTC's Infrastructure Australia Submission
I'm not sure that features very highly on a Sydney to Melbourne corridor basis , ARTC wants rail to be more competitive with road and since the Hume doesn't go through Canberra I don't think they're i ...
  Thread: ARTC's Infrastructure Australia Submission
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Replies: 19
Views: 649

PostForum: Signalling and Infrastructure   Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 4:54 pm   Subject: Re: ARTC's Infrastructure Australia Submission
There maybe something about a preferred route to the east of Picton in Bridges Down Under , I think I remember Whitton being overruled on the operationally superior route .

I just happen to have t ...
  Thread: Fast rail, Sydney to Melbourne
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Replies: 166
Views: 6320

PostForum: New South Wales   Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 4:00 pm   Subject: Re: Fast rail, Sydney to Melbourne
That's what most Australian tax payers would prefer to pay for - yes .
  Thread: ARTC's Infrastructure Australia Submission
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Replies: 19
Views: 649

PostForum: Signalling and Infrastructure   Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 8:42 am   Subject: Re: ARTC's Infrastructure Australia Submission
5814 they all have potential , Wentworth is mentioned in RD and there is a diagram of the proposed alignment .

I like the way that costs are mentioned and in relation to cost per Km of freeway con ...
 
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