Re: XPT Melb - Adelaide?

["James C." <james_ccj@my-deja.com>]

In article <39f230a7$2@news.iprimus.com.au>,
  "Erk" <erk@erkV69.au.com> wrote:
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> |The diesel tilt train is still unproven. It's a novel design using a
> |relatively high rev engine, which on paper seems unsuitablt for hot
> |Australian conditions. I'd want to wait and see. The other problem
is that
> |Walkers has a full order book for the forseeable future.
> |
> |Adtranz, Siemens and other manufacturers have many different types of
> |tilting DMU available.
> |
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> CityRail has some electric prototypes available.......

No....normally when those ones tilted you can never gets it going
again.  :-)

.I'm sure that
> National Rail can spare a couple of NR's to use on this service.
Or AN class...the enitre AN class only uses as spare/slave at the
moment.



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