Re: New Melbourne trains & trams - Local content

["Signal Adjuster" <grime@dcsi.net.au>]

<james_ccj@my-deja.com> wrote in message 8b1aum$lpg$1@nnrp1.deja.com">news:8b1aum$lpg$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
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> > > > From the pretty pictures on the T.V. it looks like that the VLP
> Motors
> > > will
> > > > be Exploder clones.
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> > > And NSW's Explorer/endeavour is WestRail's "Austlind clone" itself.
> :-)
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> > The Australind itself is somewhat based on the XPT trailers.
> And XPT is based on BR's HST. "Variety" is somewhat lacking in our
> railway rollingstocks. I'm not asking for anything like "Thalys" or
> "ICE", I'm just a little bit of changes, or modular style trains that
> are introducing into UK's rail system lately. Recently people from EDI
> said that modern/stylish looking trains not just prevent vadalism, they
> also attract new patrons evidence such as QR's tilt train.
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> Hopefully there will be something surprising in the interior of the
> train. (TVs ?)
Proper toilets in each carriage for the druggies and piss heads perhaps..
graeme
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> James
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