Re: More new CityRail trains

["trendy rechauffé" <trendy_rechauffe.trains@start.com.au>]

"David Johnson" <trainman@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> 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.

... and around the Olympic Park loop!

bye tr

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