Re: new high speed 'mummy' rail

["Thommo" <mjthom@hdc.net.au>]

David Bromage <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote in message
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> James C (jamesccj@optusnet.com.au) wrote:
> > I bet it(Speedrail) won't pulls in Melbourne by 2004...nor Brisbane.
>
Well even our local rag has finally caught up on the goss. The Shepparton
News has a full color front page (albeit no image on their web page
http://news.mcmedia.com.au capitulating the Speedrail excitement purporting
a 85 minute trip to Melbourne 35 min by car to Benalla and 50 min by train
to Melbourne. A nice photo appears with Speedrail general manager  Josh
Baker in front of a prototype loco named the VHST, Very High Speed Train you
would think they would come up with something more appropriate than VHST in
today's corporate world, but I guess nobody is really serious about the
venture anyway.