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Thread: QR Customer Service Officers - Porters |
wongm
Replies: 4
Views: 168
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Forum: Employment Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 5:25 pm Subject: QR Customer Service Officers - Porters |
Why are they called porters? When I hear that job title, I think of the guys who help you to carry your bags.  |
Thread: Where is it ~ Melbourne Suburban (Photo) #3 |
wongm
Replies: 1746
Views: 49194
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Forum: Melbourne suburban Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 5:21 pm Subject: Where is it ~ Melbourne Suburban (Photo) #3 |
| No to both. Have you noticed the level crossing protection? |
Thread: Western Suburbs transport upgrade |
wongm
Replies: 34
Views: 785
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Forum: Trams and Light Rail Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 6:48 pm Subject: Re: Western Suburbs transport upgrade |
Footscray did have some tram routes in historic times, but apart from #82 they got closed down.
Ref - http://www.geocities.com/z_class/tramhistory.html
The Footscray Trust was building three ... |
Thread: Austrains NR Class |
wongm
Replies: 66
Views: 2844
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Forum: Model Railways Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 6:40 pm Subject: Austrains NR Class |
Oh no - the last release in these colour schemes!
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/7225/img4235ok8.jpg
Nup, an AMRM from February 2002.  |
Thread: Where is it ~ Melbourne Suburban (Photo) #3 |
wongm
Replies: 1746
Views: 49194
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Forum: Melbourne suburban Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 6:24 pm Subject: Where is it ~ Melbourne Suburban (Photo) #3 |
Thanks for that. Where is the bit of rail?
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/2719/whereistherailyd9.jpg |
Thread: Healesville for Outer ring? |
wongm
Replies: 8
Views: 118
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Forum: Other Transport Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 5:36 pm Subject: Healesville for Outer ring? |
| I think we should get in early, and build a Frankston Bypass Bypass before the Frankston Bypass gets too congested. |
Thread: Really stupid question |
wongm
Replies: 8
Views: 249
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Forum: General Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 4:38 pm Subject: Really stupid question |
The control system inside the train would not like it if lightning hit the overhead, and would probably blow up in the same way your electronics would if the power line into your house got hit.
Do ... |
Thread: Ferny Grove, Ipswich & Rosewood line closures |
wongm
Replies: 44
Views: 1205
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Forum: Queensland Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 4:35 pm Subject: Ferny Grove, Ipswich & Rosewood line closures |
If you had enough diesel-hydraulic DH classes and some SX sets you could power on right though the water.  |
Thread: Cranbourne project (new station and stabling) |
wongm
Replies: 72
Views: 3262
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Forum: Melbourne suburban Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 4:34 pm Subject: Cranbourne project (new station and stabling) |
| About the only issue I see with the layout is that you only have access to the sidings from one end, via a shunt from a dead end platform. If you moved it up the line a bit, then you would have access ... |
Thread: Sparks and more beyond Frankston |
wongm
Replies: 16
Views: 752
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Forum: Melbourne suburban Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 4:31 pm Subject: Sparks and more beyond Frankston |
| Today at the I was flicking through plans for a double track station at Langwarrin, along with a three road maintenance shed and enough stabling for 20 trains. The thing was about 1 metre long fully u ... |
Thread: Nominations for the ugliest carriage |
wongm
Replies: 10
Views: 184
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Forum: General Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 4:19 pm Subject: Nominations for the ugliest carriage |
Commonwealth Rail Wegman cars looks really boring to me.
Victorian Railways AZ cars look ridiculous with the really close windows spacing, but the interiors are good.
GSR has a really ugly looki ... |
Thread: ARHS line books |
wongm
Replies: 8
Views: 397
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Forum: Victoria Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 4:13 pm Subject: Re: ARHS line books |
I got a copy from a guy scanned to a disc
When I asked about copy right he did not supply an answer
When it is out of print and unlikely to be republished I don't have an issue, as long as it is som ... |
Thread: Proposed Federation Square East development |
wongm
Replies: 42
Views: 2789
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Forum: Melbourne suburban Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 4:10 pm Subject: Proposed Federation Square East development |
At the moment they are expanding the MCG southern stand concourse over Brunton Avenue, at present it is only a few metres wide in some sections.
http://images.fotopic.net/yveo0o.jpg
The William ... |
Thread: Is There Real Demand For Bicycle Parking? |
wongm
Replies: 13
Views: 347
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Forum: Melbourne suburban Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 4:05 pm Subject: Is There Real Demand For Bicycle Parking? |
| IIRC Bicycle Victoria (or was it the PTUA or another lobby group) said that a bicycle cage is more efficient than lockers - a locker only one person can use, and takes up a heap of room. A cage might ... |
Thread: "Please move down carriage" Siemens auto-announcement |
wongm
Replies: 19
Views: 830
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Forum: Melbourne suburban Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 4:04 pm Subject: "Please move down carriage" Siemens auto-announcement |
The Xtrap problem, with "not enough memory", what are they running, 5meg ram? My lord, it would take 20 bucks to add more 'memory' to a train.
$20 to each train would probably give you enough RAM for ... |
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