Re: Need to ride on an IMU (Qld)

["Dean Stalker" <dstalker@NOSPAMdingoblue.net.au>]

Don't think it ever ocurred to QR or Walkers to do it on the initial batch.

Dean

"Chris Downs" <cvdowns@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> 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
> 3aa49d14$0$25467$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au">news:3aa49d14$0$25467$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au...
> > A number of services are now being run by the new HS SMU220 stock
> > (243,244,246-250). These SMUs are capable of 115km/h instead of the
usual
> > 100km/h. These modified SMUs have 'HS' on the left side of the QR logo
on
> > the front of the trains. (HS   QR Logo   244)
> >
> > Otherwise the service will be run by an IMU.
> >
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> > "Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
> > rPMo6.15808$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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