Re: New Newcastle fleet

["tony bailey" <mercuryworldtvl@one.net.au>]

'tis a pity that they can't be electric!

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Tony Bailey
Mercury World Travel
Mercury Travel Books
mercuryworldtvl@one.net.au
"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
>
>