2009/5/25 Bob W <[email protected]>: > In the mid 60s here there was a wholesale and much-lamented closure of > small, unprofitable railway lines that linked tiny communities. Many of them > were turned into walking and cycling tracks through beautiful and fairly > remote country (but no train to take you there!).
We never had that much railroad infrastructure, but it's been happening here too. Another stupid thing that a Norwegian government did was to privatise the national rail services. Not so stupid in itself, maybe, but they retained ownership for the track infrastructure. Subsequent governments consequently refused to allocate money to maintenance of the infrastructure. This has gone on for three decades, and now we have new, excellent trains that stand still, or worse collide, because signalling systems, power supplies, etc. is coming apart. I believe that whatever the country, there are serious faults to how railroads are managed. :-( Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
