Re: [Melb] New trains?

["Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>]

"David Johnson" <trainman@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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| Daniel Bowen wrote:
|
| > Just a thought regarding the new trains that Connex and Bays... M>Train
plan
| > to introduce in the next few years. Are they both based on existing
designs
| > from Europe? If so, are they designed for standard gauge? Is the greater
| > width allowed on the Melbourne system going to be wasted by using trains
| > intended for use on standard gauge lines?
|
| What is the structure gauge difference?  The 4D is narrower and shorter
and
| lower than Sydney's standard gauge stock, so what advantage does the broad
gauge
| really have?

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