Posted 14 years ago by loco621
El Zorro is operating ballast trains between Kaniva and Horsham and is operating out of Glenorchy with locos T386 (V/Line colours) GM45 (leased from GWA) and GM36 (believe leased from Seymour Loco Group)
The website for El Zorro only mentions the operation of two grain trains in Victoria. No mention is made of ballast operations.
I would like some information on their origins in Victoria, their future contracts and what rolling stock they currently own.
Ivan Marchant
Posted 14 years ago by SL66
On the morning of the recent great train debacle on the Harbour Bridge, the 8.10am train from the Central Coast failed to stop at Asquith station - the next train scheduled to stop was half an hour later.
The Cityrail gentleman in the ticket office calmly picked up the phone, had a short conversation with someone, and three minutes later an express train made an unscheduled stop to pick up stranded passengers.
Posted 14 years ago by bevans
Apple's iPhone could emerge as the most succesful product introduction of the 21st century, new research suggests.
Lightspeed Research surveyed 39,000 people on its US online panel in the days following the launch of the device on 29 June - and the research findings are staggering.
Posted 14 years ago by Participant
Walhalla Goldfields Railway is in dire financial trouble following bushfires. The railway is in danger of closing down unless much needed funding is forthcoming. There is a major fundraising model railway expo at Sandown Race Track this long weekend. Please support this event or tell your friends about it. Walhalla and Dandenong Hospital need all the help they can get.
Posted 15 years ago by Loco
HOW many times have you heard this half of a mobile phone
conversation?
Posted 15 years ago by
REGARDING the North South Rail Corridor Study Executive Report, commissioned by the Department of Transport and Regional Services, at present about 10 per cent of the Sydney-Melbourne freight goes by rail.
There are moves to increase it to 50 per cent by rail.
When this happens the citizens of Albury-Wodonga and Wagga and others are likely to notice the difference in rail movements in urban areas, as did the citizens of Botany Bay when rail was used to move freight in that area.
Posted 15 years ago by bevans
The historic Mount Buffalo Chalet, in Victoria's high country,
will close early next year.
Posted 15 years ago by bevans
Spooked by chintz, John Saxby sets off to find his
comfort zone in Melbourne.
Collins Street, Melbourne, has a celebrated, tree-lined, "Pa
Posted 15 years ago by luznug
Now then, let's see if we've got this right.
The State Government has spent $750 million improving regional rail services and that is a scandal. The minister is called to account because the fast trains aren't fast enough.
Then the minister announces that $1 billion is to be spent widening freeways and there is not a peep.
Posted 15 years ago by DavidB
The triumphalism associated with the announcement of the destruction of the Wodonga railway begs the question as to how this city will benefit from this outlay of $125 million.
Posted 15 years ago by sueglossy
It would shock me if Batchelor takes the word of Dr Paul Mees or one of the other many PT critics, but lets wait untill the first transport and liveability statement...
Posted 15 years ago by bevans
I'm a guest on the flight deck of a Boeing 747-400 jet. We've
just taxied up to the domestic terminal at Sydney Airport after
completing a routine flight from Canberra. The tension in the
cockpit has subsided after a safe landing. It's about 3pm.
We spot a jet alongside in the familiar livery of a rival
ai
Posted 15 years ago by wurx
CityRail, again....not that the appalling performance of the trains is newsworthy any more but how can an express train from Burwood to Central (stopping only at Redfern) take almost 30 minutes?
Posted 15 years ago by wurx
How tremendous: Deputy Premier and Transport Minister John Watkins has been out inspecting the new Bondi Junction rail works; promises of extra trains to follow, with the new timetable coming in May. Golly, how terriffic.
Posted 15 years ago by grasshopper
THE February announcement by Premier Iemma that the Newcastle rail line would not be closed, was greeted with relief. However, Save Our Rail and other groups are concerned about the Government interest in the Hunter Business Chamber proposal, which would ultimately achieve the same result as the Broadmeadow plan - of closing the line after all.
Posted 15 years ago by DavidB
The people of Wodonga will not know, and most will not care, that when the railway line is removed from the centre of the city, the railway station which has been an historical part of Wodonga’s past for 132 years will also be removed, according to the Wodonga Historical Society.
Posted 15 years ago by DavidB
There would not be many who would say that organisations such as Steam Ranger, Pitchi Ritchi or the National Rail Museum in Port Adelaide, were a wasted effort in keeping a very important part of South Australia, and its rail heritage, alive for all to enjoy, experience, and help us to understand how South Australia was built, and survived in its early years.
Posted 16 years ago by bevans
FRANK Merlino is waiting for a train that never comes. For more
than 20 years he has served as a councillor in the outer-north
municipality of Whittlesea, waiting hopefully as planners and
politicians have talked up rail extensions for the patches of fresh
suburbia sprouting beyond the reach of the Epping station.
Posted 16 years ago by DavidB
The NSW Government is launching a campaign to fight an increase in vandalism and malicious damage on south coast trains.
Posted 16 years ago by DavidB
LABOR'S two large transport initiatives - the duplication of the Calder and the fast rail project - are vital to the future of central Victoria.
Posted 16 years ago by bevans
The infrastructure debate started in promising fashion. Pushed along by the queues of ships waiting to load coal at Queensland's Dalrymple Bay port, the debate sought to address two questions.
First, is Australia's existing infrastructure - ports, roads, rail, electricity and gas facilities and rivers and dams - capable of coping with high economic growth without running into bottlenecks?
Posted 16 years ago by david bramwells
Don't believe all you read in the newspapers!! Father bentleigh train victim to sue! Leader newspaper Moorabbin
Posted 16 years ago by david bramwells
I am the Author of an online petition, their has been a lot of talk, too much talk, so to make matters clear you be the judge.
http://gopetition.com AUSTRALIAN Section Stop Look Listen Don't Put Your Life on the Line.
Posted 16 years ago by david bramwells
Dr Eric Wigglesworth, Monash University, Australia's leading expert on level crossings, told The Age newspaper (24/9/05)that level crossings were virtual museum pieces designed to allow trains to share the city with horse and carts, decades before the motor car was invented.
Posted 16 years ago by freightgate
Recently the Government put the future Echuca's passenger rails services under threat, due track complications. The Government wouldn't give the Echuca people any solid conformation that they would repair the line and reinstate the passenger train following the return of trains between Bendigo-Melbourne. It seems now the rail line will remain open with the passenger train running Friday nights and Sunday afternoons.
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