Re: [Vic] Fast (160km/h) Train to country Vic.

[L & D <daisyw@ozemail.com.au>]

Christopher_Martin GORDON wrote:

> Report in the Herald Sun today
> http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,2294,457470%255E1243,00.html
>
> The feasibility study into fast trains (160km/h) to Balarat, Geelong, Bendigo
> and Traralgon has shown that it is "commercially viable".
>
> The government will put in $80 million and the rest of the money to come
> from the private sector.  Lets hope that something now happens and we get
> to see these trains (after all it is better then now even if is not 300km/h
> trains).
>
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Does anyone know of any trials of trains running at and around 160km per hour in
Victoria in the past 25 years???

Davo