How many actual regional services that isn't within the realms of intercity services in NSW does vline actually provide. This removes all of the Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo and Seymour services. That w ...

We are talking rail and not coach services vinelander but even still it is just plain false that you claim vline is years ahead of NSW. Vline doesn't have to run train services anywhere near as far aw ...

Not a bold statement at all. Regardless of whatever the overhead was originally built for it is still there and still providing passenger services in 2021. Get back to me on the Vline regional rail is ...

It isn't a bold statement it is facts. Maybe it was done initially for electric coal haulage but passenger services took advantage of such and we still have the overhead being used 100% by passenger r ...

[quote=a6et]While I am unlikely to see it, I would not be surprised as the current round of Endeavours come towards life ends, & along with talk of sparking to Bomaderry sometime in the future, likewi ...

You are of course entitled to your opinion.

Mike.

[quote=RTT_Rules]Vinelander, you should park the political attitude especially when you are completely wrong.

[color=#202122][font=sans-serif][size=2]The question about are there enough trains is ...

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I'll wear the political bias accusation Shane as Victoria well and truly has the runs on the board regarding the provision of regional PT, though NSW is starting to catch up... ...

[quote=NSWRcars][font=Times New Roman][size=4][font=Calibri]Engine and transmission noise is one thing, but XPL also have a lot of knocking and creaking from the drawgear. You may speculate that the n ...

[quote=The Vinelander]Seriously...another 2½ years and only 4 car trains as well
I know you are a big fan Sims, but this is not going to work very well on the main South to Melbourne where at ...

[quote=ANR]How is the CAF going to provide extra comfort on the same tracks?

The bathurst mock up looks like crap. Yuk! Are they going to be the final colours? Why not make the train feel like a lo ...

I know what it is like because I have been thrown around on an XPT as well and that was in a straight line heading north on the vic north east. My point was how does that relate to tilt trains and why ...

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So we'll have aged pensioners flung around the cars, as I have seen previously on the main South as they try and access the buffet for their morning cuppa.

It's not a pretty ...

But for so many reasons they should have but we are talking a conservative government here.

Mike.

[quote=speedemon08][quote]None because Holden didn't go bust. GM shut it down because Abbott stopped giving subsidies to Holden which GM used to pilfer immediately to prop up the ineptitude of GM USA. ...

[quote=The Vinelander]3. NSW has to offer attractive fares due to the slowness of its regional trains/buses because of its geography and it's a long way behind Victoria in its regional PT frequency an ...

None because Holden didn't go bust. GM shut it down because Abbott stopped giving subsidies to Holden which GM used to pilfer immediately to prop up the ineptitude of GM USA. If Kevin Rudd had bought  ...

[quote=Lockspike]NSW Gov said sometime ago that they would wait until the demand is there before building a railway to Western Sydney airport. All of a sudden they are falling over themselves to get a ...

[quote=Dangersdan707][quote][quote]Yet Again more Proof of the superiority of Broad Gauge [/quote]

No just how incompetent the gauge conversion project was done. If NSW extended the old rail line t ...

[quote=s3_gunzel][quote]The harbour bridge would seem to be the perfect place for recycled plastic sleepers.[/quote]Given the rails are attached to the bridge, and there are no sleepers - at least not ...

[quote=ANR]Unless covid disappears anytime soon, it will be a stretch to expect that the trains will be delivered by the next election cycle.

If the wheels fall off the XPT by then, there is always ...

Yet Again more Proof of the superiority of Broad Gauge

[quote=bevans]Myself, I think it has made the job of running more and more services easier however the single format does not provide for much service differentiation like a business or first class bu ...

[quote=NSWGR8022]Would it be a possibility or a good idea for the SA and Vic governments to place additional orders for these longer distance trains for say Whyalla and Bordertown and Mildura and Hors ...

[quote=bingley hall][quote]This is why we should be exporting grain out of newcastle as well as Port Kembla. All that grain could be going out Newcastle on a much shorter trip for most of it.[/quote]

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