Re: Upgraded XPTs???
David Bromage (dbromage@metz.une.edu.au)
16 Apr 1998 09:42:24 GMT
Michael Walker (walker@hotkey.net.au) wrote:
>
>Bob wrote in message <352B9BAC.B68B84DC@fastlink.com.au>...
>>While driving to work this afternoon I just caught the end of a news
>>story that was about an announcement to spend $150M to upgrade the XPT
>>fleet. The announcer babbled something about new engines . Can anyone
>>confirm this?
>>
>I would have thought $150m would go quite some way to REPLACING the fleet
>with modern, faster trains.
You're not going to get trains running any faster unless you put a few
hundred million into trackwork. Tilt trains might shave a little time off
each route.
Cheers
David