Re: [QLD] Tilt train experience

["Thomas Fothergill" <s370507@student.uq.edu.au>]

um.. no offence, but unless you posted the wrong link for the graphic, your
resemblence of the QR tilty to the japan 283 class is no short of comparing
a QR EMU to a tangara!!.. they look nothing like each other!.. dunno what
planet you are living on heh. ,,,.. my apologies if there was a genuine URL
posting mistake, and i'd be interested in seeing the correct link if so.


<james_ccj@my-deja.com> wrote in message 87ucrr$7ar$1@nnrp1.deja.com">news:87ucrr$7ar$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> Last Sunday I took the tilt train for the 1st time, 1st impression the
> exterior look somewhat resemble Japan's class 283 tilt train:
>
> http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/%7Emt5h-nitu/galry/galry2/spozr.jpg
>
>  the economic class is 2+2 seating still give plenty of leg room, just
> as good as ICEs, I noticed the TV screen is much closer to the
> passengers then airlines. Before the boarding commenced , the train was
> serving at Exhibition end of the platform 10. Train was completely
> full, even in business class as we left Roma Street. Strange enough
> there were both trolly service and galley for passengers "This is a
> perfect train"! I though...
>
> As we glide through Central station, the TV showed all the safety
> features and one thing "irratated" me was the "stay seated as much as
> possible while train is at full speed" . Actaully tilt train is VERY
> VERY smooth, even the train is at full speed or curvey section the
> rides is so much better then IMU on Gold Coast rail, I attemped to walk
> during those condition and found no trouble at all.On the way to
> Rockhampton we watched 2 movies, both were very recent and highly
> entertaning, much better then the VERY boring documentry showed on
> Qantas flight previous day. There are also 6 audio channels to choose,
> ranging from pop music, jazz, comedy, news, story telling etc.
>
> Despite it was a Sunday,we met number of trains on North Coast line:
> 5 freight trains, 2 coal trains , 1 empty working of ICE, it seems to
> me the weekly ICE still follow its original timing rather then leave
> Rocky immediately on Saturday evening. saw class 4000-07,06,05 at
> Maryborough West and 4003, 4004 at Gladstone, alone with very shining
> class 2000-31,32(with white curtain!)and accident damaged 3902. 7 hours
> is really not all that long, when I got off the train, I still felt
> refreshing as ever.
>
> Having checked out the beautiful Archer Park Station on Denison Street
> painted with beautiful red color along with some "wax-passengers"
> waited on the platform. a freight train hauled by 2832 slowly glide
> through Dension Street, any proposal to bypass this section?
>
> The next day, I tried out business class for a change, yesterday's
> economic class was impressive enoguh but business class is like haven!
> Before departure, drinks and newspapar/magazines are given to the
> passengers. Moring tea, lunch is included with the fare. Interesting
> enough to see windscreen wiper on the TV when rain!
>
> Despite number of major project to upgrade the North Coast line, there
> are still number of tight curves. Especially in between Gympie North
> and Brisbane Roma Street, any improvement on this stretch might be
> expansive as the route go through some National Parks and housing.
> There were 2 "sugar-cane rail draw bridge" to prevent slowing down of
> the train while at crossings, I wondered if any more installed bewteen
> Rocky and cairns for the Deisel tilt train?
>
> One last thing I noticed was the timetabling is very conserved, we
> could do a lot better, less then 6 hours can be achieve easily.
> On the return journey we hit 168kph, forward journey only gone as fast
> as 160kph and most of the time , the speed was kept below 140kph but
> both trip were on time. The return jorney involved some longer stopping
> time. Acceleration was very fast and smoother then ICE.
>
> Overall I was highly impress with this train and highly recommand
> everyone to try out no matter if you are a railfan or not. This train
> IS the premier train of Australia hopefully we can get some similar
> units to run interstate routes.
>
> --
> Cheers
> James
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.