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MOM
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Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 11:39 am
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Seems some threads are being locked up because of the above mentioned practices.
Take heart and post all your Idiotic, Crackpot and Bizarre Idea's here.
Nominate which past threads should be either split and reside here or which threads just deserve to be here in the first place.
enjoy 
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GeoffreyHansen
Minister for Railways
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Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 12:02 pm
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I get to be the first cab off the rank.
A steam train across the Torres Strat and the Bass Strait.
Bring the 3900s back to Brisbane
Bring Karlsruhe Tramtrains to Australian cities
Extend the proposed Metro to Taylor Square
Extend the Gold Coast line to the Tweed
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MOM
Deputy Commissioner
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Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 1:34 pm
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I was thinking more of the Eucha-Geelong thread and Ballast Plough & wongm's idea of re-opening these deceased lines:
Ballast_Plough wrote:
Hmm, lets throw in Skipton to Casterton too then.
wongm wrote:
Why not Newtown to Colac, via Cressy just for good measure.
Unfortunately a Steam Train is an impossibility in the places you desire. 
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xtrap_heaven
Chief Train Controller
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Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 1:47 pm
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Here's some things we know will never happen!
Triplication to Dandenong
Doncaster line
Rowville line
South Morang extension.
Melton and Sunbury electrification
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Serviceton_Kev
Chief Train Controller
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Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 1:54 pm
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How about reinstating Serviceton yard as well as reinstating the Wangaratta-Whitfield line so at least I can get some train action where I am! There's some of my crackpot ideas!!   
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MOM
Deputy Commissioner
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Serviceton_Kev
Chief Train Controller
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Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 2:09 pm
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| MOM wrote: | | Serviceton_Kev wrote: | | How about reinstating Serviceton yard as well as reinstating the Wangaratta-Whitfield line so at least I can get some train action where I am! There's some of my crackpot ideas!! |
Both in BG of course, just so it doesn't mate up with any existing infrastucture and the SG tracks (existing and planned ) are dual gauged....
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True, In the case of the Wangaratta-Whitfield line it was NG although it would've been better as BG.
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Deep Throat
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Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 2:15 pm
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Sorry, but no matter how hard you try (and melbtwunt is trying...) you'll never, ever beat this bloke. Gets a bit mean to the end, but no-one will ever even come close to this.
Anonymous - and proud of it.
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MOM
Deputy Commissioner
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Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 2:26 pm
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To read through 169 pages of crap is just to much that one can take, no matter how bizarre and idiotic it is.
Did he make any reference to a NG Velocity to be used on "special" charters on PBR? Not only a bizarre thought, but most idiotic as well.
Must be time for my meds...excuse me...
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xxxxlbear
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Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 2:40 pm
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OMG thanks for the memories
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Westernport
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Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 2:47 pm
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does this thread count as an Idiotic, Crackpot and Bizarre Idea?
i kid, i kid..
| xtrap_heaven wrote: | Here's some things we know will never happen!
Triplication to Dandenong
Doncaster line
Rowville line
South Morang extension.
Melton and Sunbury electrification |
here's a few more to add to the list
Grade Seperation at Nunawading,
Network wide operation of X'Trapolis and Siemens trains
and the now famous (infamous?) white elephant know as
myki..
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luznug
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Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 3:48 pm
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High Speed Rail Around the World.
You have heard of a around the world ticket but did you ever think of 1000kmh rail.
How could Australia join this amazing engineering feat between Europe, Russia and Asia? Perhaps a high speed ocean liner from Darwin to Jakarta then build a couple of little bridges between Indonesia and Singapore.
Melbourne Darwin 5 hours.
Darwin Jakarta???
Jakarta Paris- 17 hrs
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Metro Transit
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Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 4:38 pm
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Opening the South Gippsland line, that will never happen with the way things are going now.
Cross city tunnel, lots of talking but no action, or money with the economic crisis thats about.
100% of Melbourne trams being low floor.
V/line services to Adelaide.
TGV style services to Sydney, Canberra and Adelaide.
Bass straight tunnel, sounds like a great idea but only alive in dreams.
Trains running in Victoria that travel at more that 160km/h.
Metro.
Metro Transit - For King and Country
Minister for Cultural and Ethnic Affairs, Minister for the Arts.
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alstom_888m
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Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 4:48 pm
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| Metro Transit wrote: | | 100% of Melbourne trams being low floor. |
Thanks to the UN, that will be true (apart from the W class) by 2020 thanks to the UN and their disability laws.
Can I add Regional Fast MagLev to the list? 
Reliable, Economical, Safe, By Rail.
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Metro Transit
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Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 4:59 pm
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| alstom_888m wrote: | | Metro Transit wrote: | | 100% of Melbourne trams being low floor. |
Thanks to the UN, that will be true (apart from the W class) by 2020 thanks to the UN and their disability laws.
Can I add Regional Fast MagLev to the list? |
And if they are not all by 2020 what will the UN do?
Metro.
Metro Transit - For King and Country
Minister for Cultural and Ethnic Affairs, Minister for the Arts.
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