Hi Paul, Sorry, what I was told was that the fibre along rail lines was not Telstra supplied. I was also told that Ergon has non-Telstra fibre all over the...
Hi I think you'll find that as Telstra has been corportised and part privatised for over 15 years this actually has no bearing. The funding for such services...
Shane and All You are most probably right, although I'm not disputing that, the fact is Telstra's fibre network pretty well covers the country, and it pretty...
Ben all south bound departures made it out eventually. 5BA6 5BM4 5BW4 all passing through soggy harbour oops i mean Coffs harbour between 11am and 5pm. 5bm4...
All I'd recommend that for anyone interested in the QT investigation Report - it's worth a read. Just a pity that the 'drawing/image' (Fig 6) at the top of...
Garner I think you have hit the nail on the head with what you say about the Port deficiencies. For example - the Xstrata tippler at Tville is supposed to be a...
Good pic of the CTT on page 4 though! ... it's worth a read. ... of the overall doc) - is of a 2 trailer 'ROAD TRAIN' and not a 2 trailer 'B DOUBLE' as it is...
I think I need to find a new web host, these guys are having a whinge that its taking up too much resources. Fair enough, it probably won't be fixed in that...
I guess that will be part of the costings for signalling the line. The Santa Fe introduced automatic block signalling and CTC to similiarly isolated portions...
The Xstrata tippler also blocks the molasses roads and vice versa. Molasses trains cannot enter the port if an Xstrata train is unloading and an Xstrata train...
For any Townsville QRIGers, today a zinc train should be unloading. This will be different as it will be PHY wagons. These are the old american style...
Thanks Peter. Interesting that of three vehicles approaching the crossing only one noticed the flashing lights working (or of 5 people only 2 saw them...
Interesting news. Didn't see the train yesterday, hopefully I'll see it heading west today. The PHYs were built for the Thalanga ore traffic in 1989 - they...
Hi, I'm not sure why QR lay their on cable, they are not the only railway to do so. It might just be easier to have things like this in house and Telstra's...
Hi Graham Thanks for that correction, whats the lease cost? You know what I mean, if they own/lease the corridore, doesn't cost much to pay for the upkeep once...
I've managed to resurrect the Gallery on a web server running on a spare PC at home. Should hopefully hold up to the traffic until I can find a good priced VPS...
Its probably a hangover from the 19th and 20th centuries when railways had to build and maintain their own telecommunication systems for safe working systems....
Ipswich/Rosewood line reopens Effective 11 November 2009 The Ipswich/Rosewood line will reopen on Wednesday 11 November 2009, with work on Sadliers Bridge...
Good news for those who use those services. Looks like they completed the job in about 4 weeks. In more good news on repairs. Track gangs have been working...
Hi all 07.05 6252; 2390 hauling 10 PCZY empty cement cotainers, 1 empty PCUY and 1 empty BEZY Ex Cairns 08.00 9L8?; 2150D hauling 34 loaded GN to Cobarra ...
All I'm fairly sure that QR 'on sell' their spare cable capacity on their NCL cable. So I imagine they could/would do the same on any other ones they have. ...
Just in time for the next flood, eh? <g> Cheers Roscoe ________________________________ From: G S <kenworth_10x6@...> To: qrig@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
In the Locomotive 2009 (trains) there is a good story on Alcos and GM down under, plus some good articles on Alco's in the states. Only Those Who Challange...
I did note who that photo was credited to. Peter R Murray _____ From: qrig@yahoogroups.com [mailto:qrig@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of A10 Sent: Saturday, 7...
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