State Budget

[Psyber]

righto the problem is simple when Adelaide Melbourne corridor was broad gauge all rail freight had to be changed in Melbourne at Dynon and in Adelaide at Islington. With the standard gauge we can run freight all over Australia. Victoria lost a fair few lines under Kennett and we are slowly getting these railways back. South Australia and Victoria should have went Standard gauge years ago but never did.

At one stage, I think, standard guage was "standard" only in NSW and VIC. and there was a lot of Qld on narrow guage. The other states liked broad guage because it reduced sway and was more comfortable for passengers. I seem to recall that it was broad guage to Broken Hill, narrow guage to Silverton, and standard guage on to Sydney when we did that trip when I was a child.

So, agreement kept being far away. It does make sense to have one guage throughout the whole country.

[Strawb]

righto the problem is simple when Adelaide Melbourne corridor was broad gauge all rail freight had to be changed in Melbourne at Dynon and in Adelaide at Islington. With the standard gauge we can run freight all over Australia. Victoria lost a fair few lines under Kennett and we are slowly getting these railways back. South Australia and Victoria should have went Standard gauge years ago but never did.

At one stage, I think, standard guage was "standard" only in NSW and VIC. and there was a lot of Qld on narrow guage. The other states liked broad guage because it reduced sway and was more comfortable for passengers. I seem to recall that it was broad guage to Broken Hill, narrow guage to Silverton, and standard guage on to Sydney when we did that trip when I was a child.

So, agreement kept being far away. It does make sense to have one guage throughout the whole country.

Ok here goes Victoria Broad gauge Standard gauge came into Vic in 1962 between Albury and Melbourne
SA Broad in the South and As far as Port Pirie. Narrow and standard everywhere else.
QLD Narrow
WA Standard to Kalgoolie then Narrow everywhere else
NT Narrow now standard
NSW Standard.

[Psyber]

righto the problem is simple when Adelaide Melbourne corridor was broad gauge all rail freight had to be changed in Melbourne at Dynon and in Adelaide at Islington. With the standard gauge we can run freight all over Australia. Victoria lost a fair few lines under Kennett and we are slowly getting these railways back. South Australia and Victoria should have went Standard gauge years ago but never did.

At one stage, I think, standard guage was "standard" only in NSW and VIC. and there was a lot of Qld on narrow guage. The other states liked broad guage because it reduced sway and was more comfortable for passengers. I seem to recall that it was broad guage to Broken Hill, narrow guage to Silverton, and standard guage on to Sydney when we did that trip when I was a child.

So, agreement kept being far away. It does make sense to have one guage throughout the whole country.

Ok here goes Victoria Broad gauge Standard gauge came into Vic in 1962 between Albury and Melbourne
SA Broad in the South and As far as Port Pirie. Narrow and standard everywhere else.
QLD Narrow
WA Standard to Kalgoolie then Narrow everywhere else
NT Narrow now standard
NSW Standard.

On that basis there seems to be a case for standardisation on "standard". My, obviously a little vague, memories were from my childhood when my father worked for the SA Railways.

[Strawb]

righto the problem is simple when Adelaide Melbourne corridor was broad gauge all rail freight had to be changed in Melbourne at Dynon and in Adelaide at Islington. With the standard gauge we can run freight all over Australia. Victoria lost a fair few lines under Kennett and we are slowly getting these railways back. South Australia and Victoria should have went Standard gauge years ago but never did.

At one stage, I think, standard guage was "standard" only in NSW and VIC. and there was a lot of Qld on narrow guage. The other states liked broad guage because it reduced sway and was more comfortable for passengers. I seem to recall that it was broad guage to Broken Hill, narrow guage to Silverton, and standard guage on to Sydney when we did that trip when I was a child.

So, agreement kept being far away. It does make sense to have one guage throughout the whole country.

Ok here goes Victoria Broad gauge Standard gauge came into Vic in 1962 between Albury and Melbourne
SA Broad in the South and As far as Port Pirie. Narrow and standard everywhere else.
QLD Narrow
WA Standard to Kalgoolie then Narrow everywhere else
NT Narrow now standard
NSW Standard.

On that basis there seems to be a case for standardisation on "standard". My, obviously a little vague, memories were from my childhood when my father worked for the SA Railways.

I am from a railway family and yeah I work on the railways so yeah I learnt most of this the union and books.

[Psyber]

I am from a railway family and yeah I work on the railways so yeah I learnt most of this the union and books.

My father was a Fitter's Assistant at Islington, and when he got severe asthma they gave him a Clerical Assistant job in the pay office. He had and amazing skill for adding up money so it suited him.

One of my memories from childhood when I was about 5, because he arranged it, was I got to travel between Broken Hill and Silverton in the cab with the driver and watch the Emus running with the train.