The Savannahlander

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Gulf Region Flights Assured

Today, in my email inbox, there was an interesting piece of correspondence amongst all the spam. It was a press release sent by the Department of Transport with information about regional air contracts. Reliable air connections out to the Gulf Country are an important link in combining our Savannahlander with the Gulflander. Since the demise of the previous air operator, the service has been operating under an emergency contract. Refer to this post about our earlier concerns. Some extracts from the press release:

Continue reading “News Snippets No. 5.”

Tags: Gulflander, Holiday Travel, level crossing, Snippets

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When a special gang is sent out along the line to tidy up a few missing signs, like say, whistle boards, then you as an operator on the line has to be happy that there must be buckets of money, especially when they place boards like this:

To protect a ‘level crossing’ like this:

or this:

Multiply that by a couple of dozen, and that is about what has happened recently.

Continue reading “Maintenance Priorities”

Tags: Almaden, Rough Track, Whistle Boards