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

[james_ccj@my-deja.com]

In article <DszC4.786$jb5.492599@news0.optus.net.au>,
dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage) wrote:
> james_ccj@my-deja.com won a Nobel Prize for literature by writing:
> > In article <sNcC4.981$_Q.447061@news0.optus.net.au>,
> > dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage) wrote:
> > > L & D (daisyw@ozemail.com.au) won a Nobel Prize for literature by
> > writing:
> > > > Does anyone know of any trials of trains running at and around
160km
> > per hour in
> > > > Victoria in the past 25 years???
> > >
> > > A85 and the H set with Socimi bogies out west of Ararat.
> >
> > When did this happen??
>
> From memory it was about 1989 or thereabouts, but I'm working from a
vague
> memory here.
>
> BTW, when did LH33 lose the Socimi bogies? Three sets of bogies were
> bought for the protptypes of the proposed R cars (ACR, RBR, BR) to
replace
> the S and Z cars. The drawings of the R cars looked a bit like
Overland
> cars externally, but were more closely related to a hybrid of N sets
and
> XPT trailers.
>
> Cheers
> David
Speaking of Socimi, is this company still exist? I can't find it on
   "Janes' World Railways "directory  after 1989.



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Cheers
James


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