Other Tourist railways in TAS

tasrail2100 · Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 10:12 am

lol. yeah this is my photo, it shows both of the sets of railcars that stuart made mention of. the red and cream belong to the DRR, and the green/brown and cream set are the burnie council's. the latter have had a few problems of late and have been at don in the workshops fairly regularly.

tasrail2100 · Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:45 pm

i am smashed now so i will ask another question.

what do people feel is the best tourist railway in tasmania???
each offers different qualities, but yeah your thoughts????????????

JZ · Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 12:14 am

Derwent Valley Railway. They got the best rolling stock according to me and with bit of money they could be running regular services Hobart to Ross.

tasrail2100 · Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 8:18 am

well i am up now and i am feeling rather ill. i must say i did a better job at typing this one than the one in the new locomotives thread. this one actually made some sense too.

being tasmania the whole north v south thing will probably have an effect on people's views.

don would be better if it went a few km the other direction to the arboretum or however you spell it. coles beach, well it kills me when i am selling tickets and people ask what there is at the other end of the line. when the weather is cold, the answer is of course: nothing. in the summer time well there is a beach, but most tourists find the water a touch on the cold side anyway.

DVR will be real good is that airwalk thingy is built at maydeena.

JZ · Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 12:56 pm

Ha ha ha you are legend. I hate to write posts when I am smashed although something makes me Laughing

Probably wish to fight

tasrail2100 · Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 3:41 pm

ha ha yeah thanx mate, i strongly recomend trying to write down some stuff when u r tanked - that goes to anyone. i did want to write a book drunk once but well given that it took me about half an hour to write 2 posts i think imight put that idea to rest.

JZ · Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2004 5:15 pm

I write songs when I am drunk and they are usually better then ones written in sobber condition. Laughing

tasrail2100 · Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2004 10:39 pm

yeah, isn't that how most good music is made? in a drug induced state?

ok ummm well i have an open question.

how come no one ever posts in here??? is it because PNT keep closing lines that we have no where to talk about now except for the corridor???

tasrail · Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 7:55 am

tasrail2100 · Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 8:27 am

yeah well good point.

Y2 took a rake of carriages from DRR to DVR yesterday, went fairly well, ran about 50 min behind time in the end i think. overheated a couple of times.

thats all i can think of for news.

JZ · Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 8:56 pm

tasrail2100 · Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 9:10 pm

the most scenic bit is probably from devonport to wynyard and from burnie to melba. the latter recieves snow fall regularly as far as i know.

DRR runs trains along the dev-burnie section pretty often, there is 1 this sat infact, and of course there is the burnie market train which is currently running every week.

as far the bit about the transtasman, well the government was do somethign along these lines a few years back but it never really got off the ground, and it seems as though they have now lost interest in the states railways. an example of this would be their reluctance to upgrade a couple of bridges on the scottsdale line, which has now been closed because of this. this line is also very scenic (ok so they are all scenic) and DRR ran trains up there quite a lot, this tourist opportunity has now also been lost.

i dont htink a trans tasman would be feasibkle until the track was upgraded.

while we are on business opportunities, a regular passenger service would be able to snuff out the busses if the track allowed the trains to travel fast enough.

Z1NorthernProgress2110 · Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 9:23 pm

I've been down that Burnie-Melba line a heap of times.Never have i seen snow yet.But when the EBR centenary was on i think it did try in September-October a couple of times.