[quote=True Believers][quote][quote][url=https://twitter.com/levelcrossings/status/1525008113128116225][color=#111111][size=3][font=Whitney,]https://twitter.com/levelcrossings/status/15250081131281162 ...

The best and most hopeful part is that SCT is involved.

[quote=kuldalai][quote][quote]This is not new; railways have been managing this problem ever since electricity was first applied to railway signalling. Today there are more options than ever before.[/ ...

If two and a half to three trains a week is all that is possible that is an appalling situation. All concerned should hang their heads in shame before being sacked.

Surely there is someone with a p ...

[quote=Valvegear]There are already V/Line bus services to Mansfield from Southern Cross, with an addition to Mount Buller during the ski season. Check V Line's master train and (ahem) "coach" timetabl ...

[quote=True Believers][url=https://twitter.com/levelcrossings/status/1525008113128116225][color=#111111][size=3][font=Whitney, ]https://twitter.com/levelcrossings/status/1525008113128116225[/font][/si ...

Anybody see the Foxtel (?) 'Australian Repair Shop' and compared it with the BBC version.

I found it disappointing. Too much drama and too little 'repair' detail.

Everything in these programs is 'massive', 'disasterous', 'catastrophic' or just plain childish. They depict the industry and those who work in it as incompetent amateurs and fools. Why cannot they si ...

[quote=BrentonGolding]So many V/Locities, so few drivers yet V/Line still can't find a way to run 2 x VL instead of the usual 1 when there are big AFL games on at the G or Marvel.

I'm going to need ...

For unknown reasons this  post has been duplicated.

Not a lot to be proud of since the latter days of the VR?

Does RFID = AEI?

They have a need.

We have no need for Tennant Creek - Mt Isa unless we 'need' another break-of-gauge!.

Given the stupidity, perhaps it was Bernard Woolley.  

[quote=hbedriver]I wonder how much of this is simply people refusing to accept that their first thought bubble may not be the best possible? We saw this with ARTC’s botched work when the Albury line ...

[quote=Sulla1][quote]Am I missing something ? .................

The two parties to the disputes in WA and Queensland are both non-government commercial enterprises where Aurizon was the incumbent ' ...

Am I missing something ? .................

The two parties to the disputes in WA and Queensland are both non-government commercial enterprises where Aurizon was the incumbent 'owner' of the traffic ...

[quote=bevans][quote][quote]Where have the breadcrumbs gone from the forums today?[/quote]Something weird is going on. Slow as all get out and 'posts since last visit' has gone.[/quote]

Back now?[/qu ...

Where have the breadcrumbs gone from the forums today?

[quote=don_dunstan]By coincidence I was watching this short doco about the NAR made in 2007 the other day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lEwn2dkf78&t=915s

Those rail-fans went to some signifi ...

[quote=petan][quote][quote]It wasn't and the picture confirmed that.

The context was something along the lines 'the king and Queen Mary'.

Yes Queen Mary was alive at the time but she was not in ...

[quote=Valvegear][quote]It wasn't and the picture confirmed that.

The context was something along the lines 'the king and Queen Mary'.

Yes Queen Mary was alive at the time but she was not in the ...

[quote=petan][quote]Just watched a Tony Robinson History Channel doco on VE day in London.

Towards the end Robinson says that the King and Queen Mary appeared on the balcony at Buckingham Palace. O ...

Another two new 'units of measurement'. In this case relating to wind turbines:

[ul][li]Diameter of the blades/sails (whatever) is measured to be the 'same as the London Eye'.[/li][li]Speed of rotati ...

There is certainly some crap on TV.

Just watched a Tony Robinson History Channel doco on VE day in London.

Towards the end Robinson says that the King and Queen Mary appeared on the balcony at B ...