Re: [NSW] Rail upgrade in July

["Chris Downs" <cvdowns@ozemail.com.au>]

13 minutes (exactly) start-stop Hornsby-Strathfield express around 1990
in a 4-car V-set.  The train ran Gosford - Sydney Terminal in an hour even
(81km/h average) with intermediate stops at Woy Woy, Hornsby, Strathfield.

A Victorian gentleman on the train made a comment to the effect "the trains
in Melbourne don't go like this!" between Epping and Eastwood.  And for all
that speed (approx. 101km/h stop-start average Hornsby-Strathfield) the
ride in the lead car, upstairs, was sublime.

Almost as good as crossing South Creek on an up Mountains V-set at
150km/h+ when the bridge was still timber.

Chris

Hubert Lam <hubert@imap4.com> wrote in message
396e5637$0$11145$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au">news:396e5637$0$11145$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au...
> Hornsby to Strathfield in 17???
>
> Parra to Blacktown is very possible...esp with the good track around
there!
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>