Re: Need to ride on an IMU (Qld)

["Chris Downs" <cvdowns@ozemail.com.au>]

Why can't the initial batch of SMUs be reprogrammed to allow 115km/h?
Technical, policy, warranty,....?

Chris

Dean Stalker <dstalker@NOSPAMdingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
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> A number of services are now being run by the new HS SMU220 stock
> (243,244,246-250). These SMUs are capable of 115km/h instead of the usual
> 100km/h. These modified SMUs have 'HS' on the left side of the QR logo on
> the front of the trains. (HS   QR Logo   244)
>
> Otherwise the service will be run by an IMU.
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> "Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
> rPMo6.15808$lj4.334359@news6.giganews.com">news:rPMo6.15808$lj4.334359@news6.giganews.com...
> > Hi peeps - will be arriving in BrisVegas at around 1420 this Wednesday, by
> > the time I clear Customs (serious here, NOT a joke) it will be about 1500
> by
> > the time I get out of the airport and about 1545 by the time I get into
> > town.
> >
> > I need to be in Sufferers Paradise by around 1930, so does anyone have any
> > idea which Robina trains, departing from Roma St between about 1600 and
> 1730
> > will be formed by IMU's? My main reason for wanting to ride on an IMU is
> to
> > shut those interminable Queenslanders up, when they ask "Ever been on an
> > IMU" when I say how good our V-sets are down here in GOC. Having ridden on
> > an IMU, I will be able to state, with a moral certainty, that the V-sets
> are
> > indeed TGTIA.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
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