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Post by bn1 on Dec 23, 2006 19:32:13 GMT -5
locopage.railpage.org.au/qr.htmlthe Queensland Rail network, is a government owned railway servicing the Australian State of Queensland. it is on narrow gauge, and is the only narrow gauge mainline in the world. it also has the fastest narrow gauge train in the world. for more info, just ask. i'll see what i can find
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Post by RR Redneck on Dec 23, 2006 20:04:56 GMT -5
Well that seems to be an intresting line.
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Post by bn1 on Dec 23, 2006 22:00:12 GMT -5
its the worlds only narrow gauge main line (aside from 2 lines from the NSW border, one to Roma St, and the other to the port of Brisbane
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Post by RR Redneck on Dec 23, 2006 22:23:59 GMT -5
I see.
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Post by GS4 on Feb 8, 2007 1:25:14 GMT -5
Hey Alex! I've got news for you mate! Your claim that the Queensland Railway is the only narrow gauge mainline in the world, is way off course. There are several world wide.
Firstly there's New Zealand, next door to you, so to speak. The rail system there is 3'6" gauge. Then there's Southern Africa, which must constitute the largest international narrow gauge system in the world and includes, Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique, Malawi, Swaziland and South Africa and it's all 3'6" gauge.
Then there's Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, which have Meter gauge systems and then continuing in a northerly direction, there's Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt, with 3'6" gauge systems.
A well known historical South African figure, Cecil John Rhodes, had a dream, to build a railway line, from Cape Town in South Africa, to Cairo in Egypt and almost succeeded, but was thwarted by the then German Empire, which was at loggerheads with the British Empire, building the meter gauge systems in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, referred to as German East Africa, which lay across the path of Rhodes' dream. But for that, there may well have been a railway line from Cape to Cairo and it would have been 3'6" narrow gauge. How would that have been for a mainline?
There are several other countries that have narrow gauge mainline systems, one being Japan (3'6"), I stand open to correction, India which has 4 gauges, one being Meter gauge. But that's enough, I could go on and on, but I'll stop here. Otherwise y'all think that I've got verbal diarrhea. By the way Alex, if I remember correctly, the gauge in Queensland is 3'6" isn't it? As to your claim about the fastest n/g train. I'll dispute that at another time.
Cheers for now, Simon
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Post by bn1 on Feb 8, 2007 2:55:11 GMT -5
i read somwhere (and no, it wasnt wikipedia, that QR was the only narrow gauge main line in the world.
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Post by GS4 on Feb 8, 2007 3:21:47 GMT -5
Sorry to disappoint you Alex, but as I said, I could go on with morer examples in Europe and South America. As to high speed trains. We've tested passenger trains at speeds in excess of 240km/h (150 mph) We have passenger trains that are designed to operate at 100 mph. Just as a point of intererst, we run coal trains of 20,000 tons and ore trains that are 1½ miles long and remember that this is on track of only 3'6" gauge. Not bad, what?
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Post by bn1 on Feb 8, 2007 4:11:36 GMT -5
ok, if i find where i got my bad info, i'll get them to correct it
yeah, you may have tested it, but, we actually run them at those speeds.
i know, those coal trains are neat.
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Post by RR Redneck on Feb 8, 2007 8:10:06 GMT -5
That would be a good idea.
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