Re: Connex train splitting

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OgO <quentisl@leaves.qjc.cjb.net> wrote in message
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> In aus.rail, on 04 Apr 2001, Roderick Smith announced:
>

>
> Speaking of joining trains and things, I saw a six carriage train the
> other week made up of half refurb connex carriages and half old carriages,
> I can't remember now, but I'm sure that the old carriages were the old, um
> comeng ( - the ones where the windows open - my brain eludes me at this
> point...?) carriages... does this happen (often)?

I think you mean Hitachi.  But, I'm not sure that's possible.  As far as I
knew the couplings on the Hitachi sets were incompatible with those on the
Comeng sets.

Does anybody know if maybe an unrefurbished Comeng set has ever been ran
coupled to a refurbished Comeng set?

Peter.