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Re: Airport line
- Subject: Re: Airport line
- From: David McLoughlin <davemcl@AXE*THISiprolink.co.nz>
- Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 12:34:54 +1200
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- Organization: Church of Janice Christ's Latter Day Killfile
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Andrew Price wrote:
>
> On Wed, 26 Jan 2000 12:47:38 +1200, David McLoughlin
> <davemcl@AXE*THISiprolink.co.nz> wrote:
>
> [---]
>
> >However if you go to Wellington instead (a much nicer city) you can
> >catch the No 11 Seatoun trolleybus from just outside the airport, and
> >Wellington also has real trains (EMUs) though they don't go near the
> >airport.
>
> Are these the EMUs built by Ganz of Hungary?
Yes. They also still have a few of the old English Electric EMUs,
because the idiots who ordered the Ganz trains forgot to measure the
width of the tunnels on the Johnsonville lines. The Ganz trains are too
wide for them, so enough old trains had to be retained for that line.
David McLoughlin
Auckland New Zealand