This article is an update to a previous post: 8/11/2022 Only 3-4 years to replace/save 45% of Australian diesel imports? http://crudeoilpeak.info/only-3-4-years-to-replace-save-45-of-australian-diesel-imports It incorporates the recently released Defence Strategic Review. Fig 1: Australian…
Category: Australian rail
Sydney playing risky and costly metropoly games amid oil price fears (part 1)
Sydney must be the only city in the world which closes its most modern heavy rail tunnel, 12.5 kms, designed for its ubiquitous double deckers and used by long distance commuters for…
Sydney planning chaos: New Planning Review makes no provision for light rail at Epping station (part 2)
Continuation from part 1 There must be a proper LR terminus at Epping. Let’s look at the options. The closest location to the station would be on the South bound part of…
Sydney planning chaos: New Planning Review makes no provision for light rail at Epping station (part 1)
A planning review for Sydney’s suburb of Epping which started in 2016 contains an interim traffic report with a focus on cars and parking. https://www.cityofparramatta.nsw.gov.au/about-parramatta/precinct-planning/epping-planning-review No land or road space is set aside…
No ticket to ride at Sydney train station
Imagine you are a stressed Sydney motorist and you have finally decided to leave your car at home and take a train to the city. You arrive at a major station like…
Sydney mismanages transition to driver-less single deck trains (part 2)
In part 2 of this series we continue our excursion into Sydney’s rail world and look at whether this city spends its rail money wisely to prepare for an age of declining…
Sydney plans to dismantle rail infrastructure built just 6 years ago (part 1)
Contents: (1) Epping – Chatswood tunnel conversion works proposed (2) Removal of tracks at Epping and Chatswood (3) Operational flexibility reduced (4) Removal of signalling What can the world learn from…
Last Xmas train from Sydney to Newcastle CBD
Ho, Ho, Ho. Doors closing, line closing ….. stand clear. As a perfect X’mas present, NSW Planning Minister Brad Hazzard announced the closure of the rail line to the Newcastle CBD. For…
NSW regional railway clock stopped at midnight but Hunter coal trains are rolling
Impressions from a train trip Sydney – Armidale in year #8 of peak oil and 8 years away from Hansen’s deadline on coal. 3 car Country Link train arriving at the Sydney…
NSW Transport Master Plan debates conventional oil peak 2006, assumes continuing oil age
In a discussion paper on a Transport Master Plan, released on 24/2/2012 and for which submissions closed in the last week of April, the NSW government thinks it can still debate the…