Re: Hope for passenger rail services in Western NSW

["Al" <alpout@optusnet.com.au>]

"James C." <james_ccj@optusnetdotcomdotau> wrote in message
news:3ac46794$0$25514$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au...
>
> > There is hope western New South Wales is closer to regaining regular
> > passenger rail services. The Lachlan Regional Transport Committee (LRTC)
> > is proposing the State Government introduce a set of two car diesel rail
> > motors for the region to service towns including Grenfell, Cobar and
> > Bourke.
> >
> > http://www.abc.net.au/news/regionals/orange/monthly/regor-30mar2001-6.htm
>
> What is a "locomotive pulled" XPT? :-)
>
> Cheers
> James
>


When you read the article, it says "The committee says the rail motors would
replace Countrylink buses with a cheaper and less cumbersome service than the
locomotive- pulled XPTs", which I would take to mean that XPT's have locos
(which they do).  Just a strange way of wording it.

Al