OPINIONS ARE many and varied about what should be done with the Byron Shire rail corridor. Let us know what you think!
POLL: What Should Happen in the Byron Shire Rail Corridor?
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Rail is a winner in every way, all the villages along the route need transport, schools can use it daily, downstream employment is boundless, Bikes trails, restaurants.stations, taxi’s and uber. sidings in special spots for dining cars. Double lines introduced for passing. support transport for splendor.
Rail maintenance crews.. and then we have the major tourism aspects.. it goes on and is needed now.
Open is up make it a great simple track to and from Lismore use electric solar trains.. Lets step into the clean and serene future of renewables and get on ya bike too at the side…easy style
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Read through all the posts and see what you believe will give us and future generations a viable transport/train system.
Getting freight off roads and people out of cars won’t happen on a slow winding steam age alignment railway system .
Freight between Sydney and Brisbane travels mostly by road because the antiquated rail system is too slow,.
Check the railway maps page on the Northern Rivers Railway and Transport FB page and decide if it will take us into future or back to the future.
Geoff, the fact you are posting those curve gradient maps shows you are not reading them correctly. As Fix Country Rail had said in reply to one of your Facebook posts, the speeds are also influenced by sleeper pattern, crossing sighting, track clearance and curves. Streightening of curves is a very simple and reliatively low cost task, so there is no reason why e should not use the corridor we have now as opposed to waiting for a new one to just fall out of the sky.
Straightening curves requires moving the corridor hundreds of metres , farmers are really going to love that .
St Helena is a engineering nightmare to get rid of the tight radius curves , there are 2 X 210 metre radius curves that will require a bridge like is used on the coastal road between Sydney and Newcastle.
But it is exactly what the coal/diesel heritage groups prefer , a slow winding rail line experience.
Have travelled on heritage trains in NZ and QLD , they would not be enjoyable on a straight fast train line be.
My god can’t you by reintroducing the railway corridor what it could do. You can see people withou transport being able to get around because the buses are limited. It around 9$ one byron to ballina if you don’t have teabsport. If it went to casino maybe we could reduced unemployment. By community able to get work in Lismore and casino meat works. Cause there is no employment in Byron. The train needs to be extended to Robina. Reduce traffic isdues. Some of my thoughts.