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Then why, when the Japanese built their Shinkansen network, did they go for 4'8.5"?
The fact that all modern rolling stock has bogies that are completely not permanently attached to the bodies says i ...

Evening bendy bus arrives at Goulburn , sits next to the up platform for 51 minutes . Steelie held out for duration ...

Go figure .
Ok, I'll allow this point. But is there anywhere else where tra ...

I think he's capitalised 'MAIN' there because the vengeful infrastructure gods now expect him to crawl down the hill from Kotara, all the way through Adamstown and Broad to the other side of Is'o, at ...

Thanks FieldShunt,

I'm new here, so i'll hunt down those old threads.

By your logic, it would imply that running single-deck stock with higher power to weight ratios and better breaking, rather ...

Then rather than concentrating on the 50km/h limits, lets get rid of the myraid of 25km/h bottlenecks first. That can be done, and probably a bit cheaper too. Been on a train on the down local through ...

Grrr. Why do those pick up/set down restrictions still apply!!? The authorities should be shot for not abolishing them.

Also your theory on aircraft flying high and air density is simply not true , cold air is what they seek because it compresses and burns better for lower fuel consumption in turbo fan engines .
Is t ...

You'd need to do a lot of engineering to get the track up to 115 - you'd need to rebuild the entire line. No joke - it would need an entirely new alignment. Trains would also be further apart so you'd ...

Why is it 50 both ways over straight track at Ashfield anyway?

Points and crossovers.
Are these points obsolete designs or something? All over the world trains do faster than 100km/h on the strai ...

Mate - Strathfield and Central are 12km apart.

For a train to do that, requires an average speed of 60km/h. Thats not easy to do, even if you're not stopping at Redfern.
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I am well aware of the numerous occasions on which this subject has been raised here, but in light of recent oil prices, global economic crisis, global warming, what is the chance of a Sydney to Melbo ...

How about instead of not stopping the trains at Petrie and Northgate, just run more express services to / from these stations, maybe starting at Caboolture.

And the Gold Coast trains also stop at n ...

From what I can see people on this forum:

-don't want to raise taxes
-don't want efficiency gains in CityRail
-want more infrastructure
-are relatively cold to private investment, both rail and ...

Not sure if you got my meaning there - right meaning right wing thing to do not right as in correct thing to do .

Yeah sell it off why not , when it's run into the ground and no longer functional ...

I suspect NSW Labor's days are numbered, but I don't think we should forget how the libs screwed us over in an attempt to win their political p!ssing competition.
Sorry, what are you refering to here ...