Re: More new CityRail trains

[David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>]

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 10:20:39 +1000, David Bromage
<dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote:

>Seats on sleek new trains were promised to rail commuters over the next
>four years as Premier Bob Carr confirmed the Parramatta Rail Link had
>been shrunk due to rising costs. Mr Carr announced a doubling of State
>Rail's new train program, boosting it from an initial 81 millennium
>carriages to 181. The additional 100 car riages will be made up of 60
>suburban carriages and 40 intercity variants, altogether costing $270
>million.

How different will the variants be?   I was under the impression that
the Millennium trains were going to be built to Wide structure gauge.
This would rule them out of going outside the Metro area.