No - it is still a silly argument. Buying a fleet of double deck trains
would cost less per seat than a fleet of single deck trains, if the same
number of trains was ordered. You are comparing apples with oranges. The 4D
was $20million, in the early 1990's (although it was a bicentennial project,
it was well after 1988 when it was built - Sydney did not get its first
Tangara until 1987!) and you are comparing the cost of a single build set
that had to be heavily altered from its prototypes, with a fleet build 11
years earlier. It is really no comparison.
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David "The Doctor" Proctor
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