Re: "WA on track for $59m super trains"

["Arthur Marsh" <marsh@ties.itu.ch>]

How about the restoration of an Adelaide to Whyalla service? (-:

"Ed" <ews3@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> Too much to hope that similar trains might be ordered for Adelaide to
> Melbourne?
> Maybe 2 services (one day, one night) each day, each direction.
>
> Ed
>
>
> Douglas CLIFFORD <cliffd@iinet.net.au> wrote in message
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> > Headline in "The West Australian" page 32,  Wednesday 14th June 2000
> >
> > "WA moved a step closer to a promised high-speed link between Perth &
> > Kalgoorlie with the announcement yesterday of the Government's
> > preferred tenderer to build so-called super trains.
> >
> > New South Wales-based A. Goninan & Co Ltd has tendered to build two
> > two car sets and one and three car stes for the Prospector service
> > between Kalgoorlie and Perth, and a two car set for the Avon-Link
> > between the Avon Valley and Perth.
> >
> > Transport Minister Murray Criddle said the new Railcars were expected
> > to cost about $59 million and to be operating by 2003.
> >
> > He said the new wide-bodied Prospector for the Kalgoorlie service
> > would be capable ofd travelling @ up to 200kmh - which would reduce
> > the current eight-hour journey by two hours.
> >
> > The Avon-Link service between Nortan and Perth would be reduced by
> > about 30 minutes, thanks to a 150kmh train and a $2.4 million
> > refurbishment of Midland station to enable passengers to transfer to
> > the urban passenger system there.
> >
> > He said the Prospector and Avon-Link trains would be fitted with power
> > points for laptop computers, security cameras and easy-access toiltes
> > for the disabled.
> >
> > Sevices on the new Prospector would include telephones, music channels
> > and video entertainment, and personal air-conditioning controls."
> >
> > Doug
>
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