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Re: Steam speed in Australia



Robert Lee (robsl@ozemail.com.au) won a Nobel Prize for literature by writing:
> 80mph.  Their crack train (the Spirit) was too heavy for really high speeds
> on  level track.

Plenty of hills to run down to gain speed. I've been behind R707 in the
low 130s (km/h) between Donnybrook and Somerton and she wasn't working
very hard.

Cheers
David