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Re: Thought exercise - steam VFT

Subject: Re: Thought exercise - steam VFT
From: dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 02:43:45 GMT
Newsgroups: aus.rail
Organization: Another Optus Customer
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William Pearce (ben_issacs@optusnet.com.au) wrote:
>         In re Dave's comments , he suggests using 5 x50 ton double-deck
> coaches, would 50 tons with a double-decker  be possible with 1930's
> technology,

Think of the Deutsche Reichsbahn double deck cars of the 1930s.

> and I still feel that the weakest part of his design is the
> water pickup requirements .

Water pickup is possibly at substantially higher speeds than managed by
LNER. It could quite safely be done at 125mph.

Cheers
David

References:
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- Re: Thought exercise - steam VFT
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- Re: Thought exercise - steam VFT
  - From: dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)
- Re: Thought exercise - steam VFT
  - From: "William Pearce" <ben_issacs@optusnet.com.au>

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