... Logically I'd have thought a "sweeper" was a train that "sweeps up" the traffic other (presumably higher priority) trains leave behind. I guess it may be...
_____ From: qrig@yahoogroups.com [mailto:qrig@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Alan Shaw Logically I'd have thought a "sweeper" was a train that "sweeps up" the...
Howdy, Not sure how relevant this to the sweeper discussion. But I found this http://pc.smellycat.com/pics/equip/work.html (scroll down the page) A few pics...
... are ... may be a ... English ... Indeed! However, I'd be surprised if "banker" was an industry term, since it seems to me the term is superfluous the way...
Alan Shaw wrote : In the context of trains to Chinchilla though, I'd have thought the term was misapplied as I doubt there ARE many other trains out that way...
Having started this quirky train business a few messages ago, I'm now increasingly interested in what might be a reasonable list of such trains in Queensland....
Hi guys What about 6243 (Gladstone?? to Townsville) which has been called the north coast sweeper. But this was when I was a Qlik Tsv Cheers Andrew ... used ...
Hmmm.... this was one of the trains which actually started the "sweeper" discussion. Do you know who called it the "Sweeper"? Was it traincrew/control, or...
... Arthur, Yes, the term sweeper was used many years ago to describe a passenger train that did all stations work to avoid a mail or express train having to...
Robert Your post raises an intersting question (and I am speaking generally here - not making comment on the photos (which I did not look at) in the post on ...
Michael Thank you for the sopeculation in your reply. I too developed the same list, with a question over Mary Valley would be able to use the loco. I recall ...
Hi Neil, I expect that would have been #6725 which is a regular on saturdays with times varying. It can be through Dalby any time betwwen about 9:30 to 16:30...
On the same theme, a movie was taken by a teacher at Scots College Warwick, of an RM run from Warwick to Killarney. It was very graphic. I played the movie at...
Alan wrote <Similarly, I've been puzzled by MP's continued usage of the expression "east coast bankers". From their description, these "bankers" are used for...
Does anyone know where 1400 is going to to be restored? Having been invited to look at the loco some 2 and a bit years ago by one who was helping to restore...
... the ... additional ... up ... are ... Guys, The term "East Coast bankers" IIRC is/was used by The NR Operations Staff in Adelaide for the "assistance"...
... This always amazed me, rather than do a 10min stop (which I think is where they also do a crew change) that could actually be timetabled and probaly...
That would be my recolection. When QLink started to operate and pick up from smaller stations by truck, those trucks were called 'sweepers' I don't remember...
Last night I was being driven through Gladstone and I swore I saw a 3100/3200 class loco parked up on the grain/former woodchip loops. It was attached to some...
_____ From: qrig@yahoogroups.com [mailto:qrig@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Shane in the NSW rail industry). I don't how reliable the freight trains are, but...
Richard There is always time to take photos while at work on the track. eg: You cant be working on a set of points when there is a train running over them! ...
I think NSW may have used the term. I have a dim memory of a freight service between Sydney and Newcastle in the sixties being described in a railway magazine...
Further to my last email - I have just been talking to Percy Hanlon and he tells me that the term "sweeper" (applied to both passenger and freight), was used...
Mick,all, I Clinton Taylor, was on this trip, in Car E. my photos are at: http://gallery2.qrig.org/main.php/v/users/point/BRR2006_001/July12006tour/ hope you...
Tony, Your post smells like a cow paddock. Please see http://www.countrylink.info/service_status/on-time_running If CL's website is wrong and I am wrong then...
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