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

["James C" <jamesccj@optusnet.com.au>]

Tim Shenton <timbos@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> I might be wrong but I'm pretty sure a few years ago Westrail were using
> the currect Prospector cars in doing a 6hr express no stops service to
> Kalgoorlie once or twice a week.
Yes....IIRC it was a Friday only none stop service. I think this time round
maybe a service with stops but still can complete within 6 hours

Cheers
James


> I thought a previous government press release some time ago suggested a
> 5hr service -
> what has happened to this?
>
> As for laptop computer power points - 99% of business people use the
> plane
> which takes just over an hour and doesn't cost a great deal more - look
> to
> these points being used by teenagers with their ghetto blasters!
>
> Tim.
>
> Douglas CLIFFORD wrote:
> >
> > 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