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Re: (NSW) Tourist Dining Train Attacked at Couridjah

Subject: Re: (NSW) Tourist Dining Train Attacked at Couridjah
From: dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 03:52:41 GMT
Newsgroups: aus.rail
Organization: Another Optus Customer
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Taliesin Walker (taliesin@nospam.chariot.net.au) wrote:
> How would such incidents be prevented for the VFT? I assume that a similar
> attack would be much more serious if the train was travelling at 320 km/h.

TGVs have bulletproof glass. Heritage cars generally don't. There was an
instance of a TGV beng showered with ballast from a derailed train on an
adjacent line. There were some dents in the aluminium, but no windows
broken.

Cheers
David

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