Thread: four police officers killed after being hit by semi-trailer on eastern hwy vic

Originally Posted by scottvdw

In SA it is 25 km/hr
My Licence - 25km/h Emergency Services speed limit

WOW 100 down to just 25.....

That would destroy peak hour traffic in Brisbane.

Originally Posted by W&KO

WOW 100 down to just 25.....

That would destroy peak hour traffic in Brisbane.

Peak hour traffic in Brisbane is already an absolute nightmare.

In fact it doesn't have to be peak hour and the roads are clogged and at a standstill

All this would do is cause a horrendous number of smashes,which would slow the traffic down even more.

Originally Posted by 4bee

An odd place to situate a railway Line.

It makes sense in that you don't need to tunnel or smash down a bunch of buildings to get rail out of the cbd. It makes maintenance interesting however.

Originally Posted by Bigbjorn

Qld. Rail did this years ago. The one I remember best was right down the street out of the station at Rockhampton. This was the main North Coast Line. Also the one out of the 'Gabba yards across Main Street and down Stanley Street where a shunter walked in front of the loco with a red flag and ringing a bell. Blue Line in Los Angeles from Downtown to Long Beach runs on streets most of the way and not piddly little commuter trains solely. Main Line UP & SP heavy freight trains in and out of Port of Long Beach.

Used to be a lot of places with trains running along roads. A couple of other places that come to mind are in Sydney, the railways Cambelltown to Camden and Westmead to Baulkham Hills and Castle Hill/Rogans Hill. In Yass the long disused rails can be seen running along suburban streets.

Originally Posted by scarry

Peak hour traffic in Brisbane is already an absolute nightmare.

Not at the moment....

Port Adelaide had rails to the wharves for trans-shipping either way( Mainly Bagged Wheat as I recall) as well & Rails were in evidence until a few years back. It seems Towns sprung up around the Rail networks not t'uther way around. Some ran around the back streets with cut off corners. Well why wouldn't you?

One that has intrigued me to this day was a probably 24" gauge one that ran past along side the road adjacent to the various Fuel Tank Farms. Never did find out what that was for, maybe Bryant & May had their own little railway?

It was alongside Victoria Road & ran N--S.

Getting well off the subject, but I wonder how many streets still have rails from these somewhere under the surface. One of the issues that held up the Sydney light rail project was the discovery of buried tram tracks along much of the route. They are now working on the Parramatta light rail, which, in Church St and George St, runs along the route of the Parramatta tramway that shut up shop in the early 1920s. When I was at school you could still see the rails at the eastern end of George St. I wonder if they are still there under twenty layers of bitumen?

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Used to be a lot of places with trains running along roads. A couple of other places that come to mind are in Sydney, the railways Cambelltown to Camden and Westmead to Baulkham Hills and Castle Hill/Rogans Hill. In Yass the long disused rails can be seen running along suburban streets.

I was thinking more of rail lines down the middle of the road. Qld. Rail in the days of branch lines often had built track down one side of a road and houses had a rail line outside their front fence between their property and the road.

A lot of Brisbane tramlines were torn up and sold for scrap and there is still some buried under several layers of road.

Those big US freight trains that run down the middle of the road blow "Q" in Morse on their air horns at crossings and intersections. "Q" being the International signal for "I have right of way". As if anyone was going to challenge a 90 wagon double deck container train for right of way.