Re: [VIC] Wooden cars at high speed (was: [VIC] Parallel run)

["John Wayman" <trecker@optusnet.com.au>]

> The most crazy thing about all of this is the fact the wooden
air-conditioned
> cars can do 115kph but SRHC's AE's are restricted to 80kph, even though
they
> have the same type of bogies (ex SOP roller bearing bogies). Have the
wooden
> air-conditioned cars got any structural additions that I'm not aware of?
If
> they haven't then why can't wooden non air-conditioned cars with roller
> bearing bogies travel at 115kph (or at least 100kph)?
>
I have been in E cars at high speed and have been absolutely terrified. The
amount of sway in some of them was incredible. You could just stand at on
end of the corridor and look down it to watch it sway alarmingly.
Occassionally they were known to hit the edges of platforms. These cars need
to be in top condition to ever be  allowed to travel at high speed,

Cheers
John Wayman