Re: XPT thoughts

[dbromage@metz.une.edu.au (David Bromage)]

Terry Flynn (terry@cclru.unsw.edu.au) wrote:
>Why subject passengers in the powered car to extra noise.

It would be no worse than inside an Xplorer or Endeavour.

>Better in my
>opinion to just make the front couplers on the XPT power cars easy to
>use and run say 2 existing sets together, or put 2 power cars at one
>end and  a single power car at the rear to get something in between.

Not as easy as it sounds. It would mean a very long rigid coupling bar.
The HST/XPT nose isn't quite designed for coupling sets in the same way
the TGV is.

Cheers
David