Re: The XPT

["Krel" <krel4203@netconnect.com.au>]

Oliver Keating <oli@keating.ml.org> wrote in article
<OhcdVMKF9GA.169@upnetnews02.moswest.msn.net>...
> Many of you replied to my post a few weeks ago about high speed rail in
> australia very kindly with lots of useful information about the XPT,
thank
> you very much for that.
> One question still remains, the XPT is based partly at least on the
British
> IC 125. However, the British train has a top speed of 200km/h the XPT
> 160km/h. Seeing as the XPT came after the IC 125 it would seem that it
was
> downgraded. If this is the case, why was it downgraded?
> --
>
Not so much 'downgraded' as 'regeared'. The XPT were geared differently to
the HST due the 1 in 30 and 1 in 40 grades on NSW main lines.


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Cheers Krel

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