Is it pea-knuckle or peak-nuckle?
If the former I would have assumed you were talking about the card game pinochle.
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Is it pea-knuckle or peak-nuckle?
If the former I would have assumed you were talking about the card game pinochle.
Yeah, it's total blank on them from me.
This video is genuinely scary. Footage like this could have a major impact on the confidence of anyone still considering buying one of these things.
An EMD streamlined diesel locomotive in tangerine and silver Vicrail Teacup livery, with horizontal silver bands and a pair of silver lines in the shape of two crossovers forming a stylised letter V (or a teacup to some) against an orange or tangerine background paintjob, hauls a set of passenger carriage in a similar livery away from a platform at a city terminal station.
Today’s historic pic: Exactly 40 years ago today, double-ended streamliner B74 in VicRail tangerine and silver ‘Teacup’ livery hauls a VLine train away from Spencer Street station, Melbourne, March 10 1986. Six-month-old N451 and one of her early N class sisters (N452-N457) are visible at right.
We have the choice to improve those options.
Well yes. But it's also true in many cases that today's public transport is less convenient than driving for the trips people currently make by car in our towns and cities designed for cars.
I too am wary of Chinese EVs because people who know more about cars than I (which admittedly is not hard) tell me they're using Aus as a lab or proving ground. I prefer something more stable and am leaning towards Kia. Just want a normal small (not tiny) sedan or hatch. Hard to find.
Our choices are not limited to whether we take a bus one day per week. We can also choose who we vote for based on which public infrastructure their polices prioritise.
I have been checking them out.
And so happy Christmas
We hope you have fun
The near and the dear ones
The old and the young
The Mini is not mini.
I'm looking for something a bit smaller than my existing Mazda 6. The Mini is both higher and significantly heavier than the Mazda 6. It's ridiculous.
Nor should you have to.
We do already have solar, and as it happens, our petrol car is 10 years old and we are in the market for an electric car this very day. But they are all too big - massive bulbous SUVs. Why are there so few human sized electric cars?
Of course. It's different for everyone. But ALL of us have choices. Some can work from home, some can't for instance.
Saul is wrong on course. Most of us DO have options to reduce how much we drive. But he does hint at the problem which is that many, Saul included it seems, don't THINK they have much choice.
We need to break out of this mindset.
Saul Eslake on ABC radio just now pontificating about the effect of higher oil prices on inflation.
"Most of us don't have much choice about how much we drive".
Night aerial shot of the aftermath of the fire showing a destroyed historic building that immediately abuts the large Glasgow Central station (behind), that appears to have been spared.
This photo clearly shows both how devastating the fire was, and how close to total disaster it was for Glasgow Central station.
www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/1601465...
Out of interest, the NSW bi-modes will travel beneath wires these percentages of the distance they travel:
Syd-Melbourne: 6%
Syd-Griffith: 9%
Syd-Canberra: 17%
Syd-Goulburn: 25%
Syd-Dubbo: 34%
Syd-Grafton: 23%
Syd-Casino: 20%
Syd-Brisbane: 17%
Syd-Armidale: 28%
Syd-Moree: 25%
Syd-Bathurst: 64%
And that 38-45% of the journey time that is spent beneath the wires by Melbourne-Traralgon trains is a greater proportion than will be spent in electrified territory by the NSW Bi-Mode trains on longer distance runs. (The shorter distance Bathurst Bullets would be the exception at 64%)
And because Traralgon trains travel at slower speeds in the metropolitan area where overhead electrification exists, these trains spend more than 45% of their Melbourne to Traralgon journey time beneath the wires.
Given that the first 61km of the 158km long Traralgon line runs beneath the 1500V DC wires used by Metro trains, meaning 38.5% of the length of the line is already electrified, there may be a case for bi-mode trains on that route.
Yes, it's sadly ironic given that until 1987 it was 100% electrified.
Fire has destroyed an historic building immediately adjacent to Glasgow Central station. The station has been closed and no trains are running, but it appears that the station itself has survived, hopefully with just minimal damage.
This could have been catastrophic
www.scotsman.com/regions/glas...
But the bottom line is, there is no technical impediment to doing so. The infrastructure is there, the locos exist, and are used in coal trains from inland. It's a business decision. Something is wrong with the way these decisions are made.
I don't really know why. I suspect the network access charges for electricity are high, and there's an antipathy to changing locos. Yes, much of the freight is to or from destinations further north. But even then, you'd think 640km beneath the wires might be worth a loco change at Rocky.
An Alco World model 44 class diesel locomotive in Yellow End livery running flat-end forward and hauling a short train of two passenger carriages plus a van, runs past the wooden faced platform of a closed station on a single track railway line in a rural location. Dry grass covers the ground in the lower foreground and a blue sky fille the background.
Today’s historic pic: Exactly 41 years ago today, the northbound Cooma Mail from Cooma to Sydney hauled by SRA NSW Alco diesel locomotive 4422 passes Williamsdale, NSW, March 9 1985. The Cooma Mail was withdrawn in early 1986 and the last regular passenger train ran past here in 1988.
Indeed. Though that section was all downhill.
But to illustrate how much of this is a necktop problem, we do already have a long section of core mainline that is electrified- the southern part of the Queensland coastal main line between Brisbane and Rockhampton. But NONE of the general freight trains that run there today are electrically hauled
In the short term, even if hauled by diesel locomotives, freight by rail is dramatically less energy intensive than if it were to go by road. And in the medium term, yes that could be improved further by electrifying those main lines: at least ADL-MEL-SYD-BNE.
My view is that rather than re-activate closed or disused railways, the greater potential is in getting more (much more) out of the railways that we currently have open. Some of the interstate main lines are under-used, and shamefully low percentages of Intercapital multi-modal freight goes by rail.
To answer the OP's question about what would it take to overhaul and electrify the lines; a lot. Many lines have been built upon so are not available. But in NSW uniquely, for legislative reasons, hardly any lines have legally been closed. They are disused and left in situ, though in poor condition.