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From: "Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 21:27:49 +1000
Newsgroups: aus.rail
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"Paul Jones" <jonesclan@free.net.au> wrote in message
RL1y5.418$O7.10699@ozemail.com.au">news:RL1y5.418$O7.10699@ozemail.com.au...
> >
> > There was a rumour years ago that it would be AC and they'd convert some
> > Tangaras to AC or dual AC/DC.
> >
>
>
> Why bother????????

AC's much cheaper, both the system and the trains. Maybe they thought they
could change the whole system - only surmising though.

I remember now that it was a bloke working for a Pommie company, as a
consultant to the SRA who told me.

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