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Thread: ARTC's Infrastructure Australia Submission |
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Forum: 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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Forum: 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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Forum: 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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Forum: 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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Forum: 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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Forum: 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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Forum: 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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Forum: 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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Forum: 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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Forum: 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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Forum: 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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Forum: 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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Forum: 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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Forum: 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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Forum: 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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