Re: Speed Rail V Maglev

[dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)]

David Johnson (trainman@ozemail.com.au) wrote:
> Tezza wrote:

> > From Campbelltown Chronicle 3/10/00
> >
> > Campbelltown's new mayor Jim Kremmer is leading a push for the latest in fast, hi-tech rail transport,
> >
> > "Wheel-on-steel trains have reached the end of their development. The next step is to get 21st century technology into Campbelltown.
> > Speed rail from Sydney to Melbourne would take five hours. But magnetic levitation trains would take 2 1/2."

> I think he is adding a couple of hours onto the Speedrail time.

He's quoting Peter Nixon from The Australia of several weeks ago. Nixon
used SNCF timetables for comparable distances, but forgot that much of
those journeys is not on high speed lines and running at conventional
speeds (~160km/h).

Cheers
David