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Re: Re: New Newcastle fleet
- Subject: Re: Re: New Newcastle fleet
- From: David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>
- Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 00:41:55 +1000
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On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 13:46:32 +1000, David Bromage
<dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote:
>Fred Morley wrote:
>>
>> The plans had been drawn up and funding allocated for Electrophy Newcastle
>> to Musswellbrook way back in 1990.
>
>There were plans for electrification all the way to Ulan (and Telarah)
>in the early 80s. As with Maldon - Dombarton, it would have been 25kV
>AC. The 86 class electrics were built with provision for dual voltage
>operation.
But the railways said they weren't interested, so ComEng filled the
empty space with concrete.