Re: New Newcastle fleet

["Paul Jones" <dj_wiseguy2@yahoo.com>]

An electric DMU??? ever heard of the word paradox??

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p.J

"tony bailey" <mercuryworldtvl@one.net.au> wrote in message
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> 'tis a pity that they can't be electric!
>
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> Tony Bailey
> Mercury World Travel
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> "Graham Smith" <dysonsmith@idx.com.au> wrote in message
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> > 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
> >
> >
>
>