Re: Sydney to Albury track

[Santosh Bhat <santosh@student.unsw.edu.au>]

I've been told that the XPTs have a top speed of 180km/h (though i think
they've gone faster on controlled trials), but the maximum operating
speed they go at is 160km/h, well thats what the buufet car menu states.

Countrylink tried running a tilt train on the tracks, and the benefits
were only marginal and probably not worth the purchase of a whole new
fleet of trains. Australia really needs to get its act together in terms
of modernising rail infrastructure. You can basically blame politicans
for this.

Santosh
(Whos almost a transport engineer that hopes to be part of the
solution).


Peter Berrett wrote:
> 
> Hi all
> 
> I have recently been reading a book on high speed trains and noted how slow
> our trains are in Australia.
> 
> I understand that the Sydney to Melbourne XPT runs faster on the NSW side of
> the border. What is the maximum speed permissable from Sydney to Albury? I
> presume that to cope with higher running speeds the NSW authorities upgraded
> signalling along the route.
> 
> Could a tilt train shave off any time along this route using existing
> tracks? If not, is there a train that can run faster on existing track
> because of enhanced stability arising from its design eg Talgo because they
> are low slung?
> 
> cheers Peter