You wrote ----I don't think that the NSW Government will condone QR coming
over the border.

Why not ? There are cases where the NSW borders have been crossed by the VR
and the SAR.

The uniform gauge railway from Brisbane to the Border tunnel was built to
1067mm gauge with QR locos and ballast wagons (pictures do exist). It was
then changed to 1435mm gauge to connect to NSW.

In the 50s there was a proposal for a third rail to be laid to Bromelton
meat works for access by QR 1067 mm gauge cattle trains but this was not
done.

I put forward a recent idea to restore an afternoon rail service Brisbane -
Casino - Brisbane to replace the road coach. The idea was to use a
refurbished NSW railcar to connect with the late afternoon XPT at Casino.
This railcar could be used during the day for a QR passenger service to
communities towards the border until passenger traffic warranted a third
rail and electrification.

The railcar could also be used if necessary on occasions that the Sydney -
Brisbane overnight XPT has to be terminated at Casino. I have had the
overnight XPT terminated at Casino in an emergency and it took a long time
for them to get road coaches in the early morning from Lismore to take the
passengers to Brisbane via Coolangatta.

Noel Reed.

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From:TramsDownUnder@... [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Hunslet
Sent: Thursday, 15 October 2009 9:29 PM
To:TramsDownUnder@...
Subject: Re: [TramsDownUnder] Re: Generator trams - Washington and
Casino-Murwillumbah

At 08:41 PM 15/10/2009, you wrote:

Over the border now into Queensland, and a look at the fine work that QR did
to build a new Gold Coast Railway. Now we are not far off seeing the
completion of its third extension. A fourth one to Collangatta Airport is
needed, then a fifth one into NSW all the way to Casino. Sadly, atleast in
the next 5 or so years, that last idea wont happen. What we will find is the
RTA building embankments over it where they see fit, like has happened
between Tenterfield and Wallangarra. Dual guaging of the Gold Coast Railway
makes about as much sence as your Toowoomba Ranges rack-and-pinion idea!
Realy Dudley! You call yourself a Transit Consultant, yes? If your ideas are
going to set the standards for the future of railways and tramways in this
country, then is the views of this bus driver, we are all doomed!

I don't think that the NSW Government will condone QR coming over the
border! IF it does, it may well take a different alignment along the coast
where the population is, to Byron Bay and terminate there.

I think with your dual gauging, you are getting confused with a proposal to
dual gauge part of the existing standard gauge route into Brisbane. There
has been much ribbon development down towards Bromelton and there are
proposals to either dual gauge, or lay a 1067nn line adjacent within the
railway corridor. Shades of the Beaudesert Tramway!

Hunslet.

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