Re: [NSW] More new CityRail trains

["Hubert Lam" <hubert@imap4.com>]

"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.

Why go backwards now? If the Millennium is really wide gauge, then would
CityRail be really considering single deck rollingstock????