Edited 15 Oct 2019 22:43, 2 years ago, edited by zordmaker

That's great. I was hoping they'd do something for the Carlingford line before it shuts down with either F1 and/or CPH Rail Motors because both these types of trains were highly prominent on that line during various times in history. Quite remarkable what has happened with electric heritage trains in the last 4-5 years. Based on older posts on these boards 8-10+ years ago if you told people not to worry and that things would be like this in 2019 eyes would probably water up. Not to get too off topic but I believe SteamRail Victoria has got/will get a huge funding package to return their "red rattler" to running condition for tours next year, so maybe they are where things were here in c. 2015. Some there are hoping one day their electric loco (L1162) will also run again.

Our Victorian counterparts are planning to catch up on us with the Tait, yes - thanks to a $1.5m heritage grant from the feds. Now they have given them some dosh, we have some ammo to get them to give us some too.. hopefully to be put towards restoration of our U Boat.

They intend to use the Tait to operate a semi regular service to/from Puffing Billy. I really don't see how that's sustainable for any kind of heritage rolling stock myself, such an operation would be prohibitively expensive to maintain and need a whole fleet of Tait trains to operate reliably. Unlike here (and especially after the fire), they don't ecactly have a lot of spare Tait sets lying around to help build a fleet.

The 750v control voltage of the Tait is going to give them some headaches as far as standards are concerned. They may need to reconstruct the electrics to work on something more respectable and conventional.

Here in NSW, its hard to focus when just about every weekend there's either a F1 trip running, a work day on W3 or some other sort of thing going on. At least in Victoria they don't have all these distractions.

Yet.

Edited 15 Oct 2019 22:43, 2 years ago, edited by zordmaker

That's great. I was hoping they'd do something for the Carlingford line before it shuts down with either F1 and/or CPH Rail Motors because both these types of trains were highly prominent on that line during various times in history. Quite remarkable what has happened with electric heritage trains in the last 4-5 years. Based on older posts on these boards 8-10+ years ago if you told people not to worry and that things would be like this in 2019 eyes would probably water up. Not to get too off topic but I believe SteamRail Victoria has got/will get a huge funding package to return their "red rattler" to running condition for tours next year, so maybe they are where things were here in c. 2015. Some there are hoping one day their electric loco (L1162) will also run again.

Our Victorian counterparts are planning to catch up on us with the Tait, yes - thanks to a $1.5m heritage grant from the feds. Now they have given them some dosh, we have some ammo to get them to give us some too.. hopefully to be put towards restoration of our U Boat.

They intend to use the Tait to operate a semi regular service to/from Puffing Billy. I really don't see how that's sustainable for any kind of heritage rolling stock myself, such an operation would be prohibitively expensive to maintain and need a whole fleet of Tait trains to operate reliably.

The 750v control voltage of the Tait is going to give them some headaches as far as standards are concerned. They may need to reconstruct the electrics to work on something more respectable and conventional.

Here in NSW, its hard to focus when just about every weekend there's either a F1 trip running, a work day on W3 or some other sort of thing going on. At least in Victoria they don't have all these distractions.

Yet.