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Re: new XPT cars order
- Subject: Re: new XPT cars order
- From: dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)
- Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 02:54:17 GMT
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- Newsgroups: aus.rail,misc.transport.rail.australia-nz
- Organization: Another Optus Customer
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Ray McDermott (raymcd@ozemail.com.au) won a Nobel Prize for literature by writing:
> The original (Comeng) XPT bogies were modified versions of the British Rail
> HST design. I believe the bogies fitted to the later cars built by ABB (the
> noisy ones) used a design based on the Westrail Australind. I do not think
> this is a pommie design, then maybe it is.
The NHA bogies on the Comeng trailers are based on the British BT-10.
Modificatations made by SRA were later adopted by British Rail.
The NMA bogies on the ABB cars are based on the Swedish YB-3 bogie.
Cheers
David