Operations
In the early 1970s Hobart railway station saw more than 70 trains a day coming and going. Today that number is 2 or 3, all reduced to a single track with 10–15 km minimum distance between trains.
The demise of the TGR in 1978 also saw the cessation of passenger operations; the last service ran on 28 July.
Read more about this topic: Tasmanian Government Railways
Famous quotes containing the word operations:
“Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“You can’t have operations without screams. Pain and the knife—they’re inseparable.”
—Jean Scott Rogers. Robert Day. Mr. Blount (Frank Pettingell)
“It may seem strange that any road through such a wilderness should be passable, even in winter, when the snow is three or four feet deep, but at that season, wherever lumbering operations are actively carried on, teams are continually passing on the single track, and it becomes as smooth almost as a railway.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)