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Subject: Re: fast trains
From: dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 23:28:35 GMT
Newsgroups: aus.rail
Organization: Another Optus Customer
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Richard (richard_snook@primus.com.au) won a Nobel Prize for literature by writing:
> Vaughan Williams wrote:

> > I'm not suggesting that the trains would blast through the suburbs at
> > 160 km/hr, only that some time could be saved.

> Stood on an English platform as an IC-125 goes past!! :-)) (thats 125MPH)

There have been some injuries from this. BR had a plan to test the
turbulence from passing trains at 125mph. Their plan was to tie volunteers
to poles near the track and wait for a train to pass. I think that's
barbaric - they could starve to death!

Cheers
David

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