Re: High Speed Trains in Australia

[G.Lambert@unsw.edu.au (Geoff Lambert)]

Maurie Daly <mauried@commslab.gov.au> wrote:



>On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, David Johnson wrote:

>> We did a test run once, leaving Meeks Road at around 01:30, arriving at Albury at around
>> 07:30.  That is an average speed of around 100 km/h.
>> 
>> --
>Goes to show what can be done if you really try.
>Means a Sydney - Melbourne service in 9 hours.
>This would be something.

Yes.  But still about 30mins  more than my PhD student who said he
regularly did it in a 1978 Honda Civic in 8h30m in the early 1990's

Geoff