[OSM-talk] User WJtW - railway track counts

[Warin]

A local railway corridor is having a third track added specifically to 
carry freight. It can also carry passengers but that would be an 
exception.  It may have a 'lower-spec' for smoothness .. but in all 
other regards it has at least the same speck.
There is some political pressure to encourage the use of railway rather 
than road services for carriage of freight.
Most of the longer Australian railway lines carry far more freight than 
passengers, and the lines are significantly less comfortable for 
passengers due to it!
I'd not recommend any of the longer Australian railway passenger trips 
if you want some comfort.

As far as tagging goes I would not distinguish between then .. both can 
be used for the other when required.

On 16/10/2015 10:10 PM, Richard Mann wrote:
> Goods-only and empty-coaching-stock lines can be markedly lower-spec 
> (such that they cannot be used by passenger-carrying services), and 
> are effectively a subsidiary system. There aren't all that many 
> examples left in the UK.
>
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Dave F. <davefox at madasafish.com 
> <mailto:davefox at madasafish.com>> wrote:
>
>     I'm unsure of the difference between passenger_lines=* & tracks=*.
>
>     Reading the wiki page, it appears the writer is confused as well,
>     stating in the last paragraph, that the 'passenger' bit is
>     redundant as "all kinds of tracks connecting the same railway
>     stations or junction should be counted with no regard to the train
>     services running on it." & it's a "workaround" for tracks.
>
>     Cheers
>     Dave F.
>
>

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