Re: [NSW] Cityrail Millennium Train

["Chris" <chrisc@fl.net.au>]

What's your problem?


"Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
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> "Chris" <chrisc@fl.net.au> wrote in message 3a96ecda@fl.net.au">news:3a96ecda@fl.net.au...
> | I didn't suggest anything like that,
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> Just because you didn't do it doesn't stop someone from wrongly accusing
> you. You're good at it yourself.
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>  I'm sure they know what they are doing,
> | but looking at the first picture they have some temporary horizontal
> bracing
> | inside the top level. (yes they are still welding) I thought it looked a
> bit
> | flimsy if it rolled over or if it was hit in the side by a cantenary
mast
> | etc.Maybe it will be stronger when they have finished.
> | I'm sure the Bureau of Rail Safety of D.O.T. have the public's best
> | interests in mind.
> | Btw.... the Bureau of Rail Safety would have had a committee setting
> | standards, made up of representatives of manufactures and rail
> authorities.
> |
> | Chris
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> | "Geoff Lillico" <glillic@msn.com.au> wrote in message
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> | > Yes there are standards in place.
> | >
> | > I would hazard a guess and say that not one correspondant to this
thread
> | is
> | > a structural engineer and nor am I, but unless you have substantiated
> | > evidence to the contrary, I believe it is unwise to suggest that these
> new
> | > trains do NOT comply to the standards set for the Bureau of Rail
Safety
> of
> | > D.O.T. or those of the Australian Standards Authority.
> | >
> | > --
> | > Geoff Lillico
> | >
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> | > "Chris" <chrisc@fl.net.au> wrote in message
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> | > > it looks like it has the structural rigidity of a paper bag, I heard
> in
> | > the
> | > > USA they have structural standards for new passenger rolling stock
in
> | case
> | > > of accident, (just like cars). Do we have the same?
> | > >
> | > > Chris
> | > > "Jonathan Lau" <jonlau@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
> | > > news:3A94F2F3.2936033E@ozemail.com.au...
> | > > > HET's website now contains pictures of the new Millennium Train.
> | > > >
> | > > > http://members.optushome.com.au/electrain/ClydePhotos_nn4.html
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> | > > > Somehow it doesn't look like any of the proposed drawings and
> pictures
> | > > > I've seen.
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> | > > > The additional middle window section in the upper and lower deck
> | saloons
> | > > > seems to have been omitted. Perhaps this was Clyde's solution to
> save
> | > > > weight?
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> | > > > Regards,
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> | > > > Jon Lau
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