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Re: railmotor and DMUs

"James C." wrote:

> Try Daylesford's Central highland railway, most of the time they use
> Walker railmotors for general operation, Walker railmotor are very
> different, look inside the train you will notice this train is design
> to be a long distance train . Personally I prefer a QR 2000 class DMU,
> maybe grew up in Brisbane also influenced me somehow....

Were they built at Walker's in Marybourough?

Oddly enough, when I was in grade eight, the 2000/2100 class railmotors
were referred to by my schoolmates as "silver bullets", in comparison to
the Evans sets et al that were only then being phased out on the Lota
branch.

> James

Rob K