Recent content by DownSouth

Yes, Gladstone does have a passenger station which was served by all three gauges in its heyday. There were three stations on the Port Pirie to Broken Hill line in South Australia which were triple gauge for a time. All three are now only standard gauge, but they are served by the Indian...

I don't think Bravo's hamstring strain looked like anything to do with the Docklands turf. I asked a mate of mine about this - he's a trainer with Port Adelaide and said that Docklands is around the middle of the pack as far as the surfaces at the nine regular AFL venues go, and that the risk...

Good spot! This is a consequence of London's relatively high latitude of 51°30'N which places it almost twice as far from the Tropic of Cancer (about 3120km) than the Arctic circle (1670km). My home city of Adelaide is located at a much shallower latitude of 34°55'S (3520km from the Antarctic...

The WACA is a great ground to watch on TV, but it's a very different story for the people who actually go to matches there. It's a neglected dump, the view of the play is pretty poor if you aren't a member, and it's in a very awkward location for transport. I've been there once, and it's not an...

The schedule for the 2017-18 Ashes series has just been announced, with two big changes to the previous series. The first major change is that the second Test at Adelaide Oval will be a day/night match played with the pink Kookaburra ball. Adelaide Oval has hosted two day/night Tests so far...

Sounds like you just need a different election then... At the polling place I work at each time, we have a prize for the first person who finds one with 'yes' written next to the Sex Party box when sorting and counting the Senate ballots later in the evening.

Yes. That's the way it should be too - only promising what you can deliver is the best way to build confidence in the reliability of any service, transport or otherwise.

Nate Silver? For what it's worth, I think Trump will get some centrist Republicans voting against him in November as well. My Aussie-citizen-American-resident friend's wife will be doing that despite being a lifelong Republican voter, the line of work she's in needs international trade too...

I saw the original version of the article on the ABC website and wondered if it might be worth logging in here again to see if it got a mention. It is apparently the longest grain train to run in the state of NSW to date, as an attempt by the operator Southern Shorthaul Railroad to lower the...

Apparently there is change in the works at Starbucks. A few of their franchises in Melbourne (which has a coffee culture shaped by the local Italian community) went native, and when the corporate management found out they brought the Flat White to the USA. If I'm in Melbourne I still go to a...

Hi everyone, I'm back from my trip to France for the second half of the Tour de France - and a most enjoyable time watching the second Test highlights with the other Aussies in the coach every night! Well done to the Brits for getting a win in the Tour by the way, but unfortunately I was too...

So, I guess from his uncontrolled childish giggles that Joe Root has never experienced a cricket ball going straight into his, um middle stump before... Somehow I don't think Alistair Cook will be impressed by the loyalty of the vice-captain in his time of great pain.

That looked like a pretty hard one to me, I don't think Bye Bye Buttler would have managed to take that one. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- Is Trott available? I thought he had retired.

That was exactly my point - only airport stations which have dedicated infrastructure and which is of no relevance to the rest of the public transport network should be self-funding via either a fee charged directly to the passenger (in zone/distance/timed fare systems, such as the Opal card in...

Absolute cobblers. The ABC is fiercely independent and, just like the BBC, criticised for bias just about equally by people from all sides of politics. They did a good job of holding the previous Labor government to account, and they are doing a good job of holding the current Coalition*...