Re: Newcastle realignment

["nobody" <dweebken@NOSPAM.yahoo.com>]

Do you know how fast it got?

Brendan

"Matthew Geier" <matthew@mail.usyd.edu.au> wrote in message
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> In article <Chcd4.1942$oF2.6010@ozemail.com.au>,
> Paul Jones <dj_wiseguy2@geocities.com> wrote:
> >David Bromage <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote in message
> >q8bd4.28$D25.395147@news0.optus.net.au">news:q8bd4.28$D25.395147@news0.optus.net.au...
> >> According to "sources", this is the current thinking for the
realignment
> >> of the Newcastle line.
> >>
> ><<snip>>>
> >
> >> Signalling upgraded with provision for 200km/h running.
> >
> >
> >gee i'd love to see a v set do 200km/h!!!!
> >
>  I've seen video footage of a what I think was early chopper model making
> a decent attempt at it, the video showed a split screen - half of the
track
> ahead (drivers view) with intruments in the bottom of the field, distance
> from Sydney and speed, line voltage etc, and the other half of the image -
> panto-cam.
>
>  The speed was eventually limited by pantograph bounce - the line voltage
> started to spend too much time at 0v, and the arcing display was getting
> pretty spectacular.
>