Re: New Newcastle fleet

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

Does that mean I rode a paradox when I was last in Adelaide and travelled on
one of the STA's Diesel Electric Multiple Units?

Chris

Paul Jones <dj_wiseguy2@yahoo.com> wrote in message
99kgeg$1k3qn$1@ID-65853.news.dfncis.de">news:99kgeg$1k3qn$1@ID-65853.news.dfncis.de...
> An electric DMU??? ever heard of the word paradox??
>
> +++
> p.J
>
> "tony bailey" <mercuryworldtvl@one.net.au> wrote in message
> 3abd4b37_4@news01.one.net.au">news:3abd4b37_4@news01.one.net.au...
> > 'tis a pity that they can't be electric!
> >
> > --
> > Tony Bailey
> > Mercury World Travel
> > Mercury Travel Books
> > mercuryworldtvl@one.net.au
> > "Graham Smith" <dysonsmith@idx.com.au> wrote in message
> > 3abc1f2f@news1.idx.com.au">news:3abc1f2f@news1.idx.com.au...
> > > Carl Scully was in Newcastle yesterday to announce the calling of
> tenders
> > > for a new fleet for Hunter Valley DMU services. Seven two-car sets are
> to
> > be
> > > built at a cost of $50 million, tenders being called within six months,
> > > contracts signed within eighteen and trains running by 2005. From the
> > > artist's impressions in today's Newcastle Herald, the sets appear to be
> > very
> > > similar to the new-generation British DMU's. Clyde, Goninan, Alstom,
> > Adtranz
> > > and Siemens were quoted as the interested companies.
> > >
> > > Graham Smith
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>