[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Vic Tangaras
- Subject: Re: Vic Tangaras
- From: "Chris Brown" <sbrown@dragon.net.au>
- Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 17:04:50 +1100
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- Organization: Customer of Connect.com.au Pty. Ltd.
- References: <01be030f$8be84380$4f456ccb@torpan> <71jme9$ku6$14@news.mel.aone.net.au> <363d95bf.48874527@news.ocean.com.au> <363f0120.0@news.highway1.com.au> <3641b10a.55989813@news.ocean.com.au> <3653527c.17344000@news.ozemail.com.au> <36542699.9C611A0C@ozemail.com.au> <74cm5b$aut$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
thalytgv@my-dejanews.com wrote
>Everytime when VIC-Tangara arrives in Flinder Street , it always attract
>attensions and admire of its looking from people.
>
>I felt if this project had go ahead(60, new V-Tans) we would have something
>to impress Met-train users, I think Met-train is the only Australian Urban
>Railway system haven't order a single new stock since 1991
>there is a demand for new train for sure I think as Comeng and Hitachi are
>approaching its date.
Very True. Hitachis especially, are well past their use-by date. They're
freezing when its cold, boiling when its hot and they havent got enough
seats in them, but I recently read somewhere that they weren't planning to
replace them until at lease 2011 - just imagine how despised they will be by
then.
- Chris Brown
Rowville, Victoria
sbrown@dragon.net.au