Re: New Newcastle fleet

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"David Bromage" <support@omni.com.au> wrote in message
3ABC235C.697775EB@omni.com.au">news:3ABC235C.697775EB@omni.com.au...
> Graham Smith wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Typical to introduce something new and probably incompatable with the
> existing stock. Why not just order more Endeavours?

Or electrify Kiama-Nowra and transfer the existing Endeavours. The isolated
fleet down there would NOT be cost-effective.

Dave