Re: How fast is XPT?

["Jack" <bd107@tsn.cc>]

David Bradshaw wrote in message <36703111.68E1@ozemail.com.au>...
>I was of the impression that the major limitation on decreasing the
>Brisbane XPTs journey time was the track, and more particularly its
>alignment. Therefore the train is unable to reach high speeds often, and
>when it does it is soon required to slow down again.

Yep exactly correct..... the average speed on the North Coast is  approx
70kph... the Trains are doing this at about 1 third throttle to 1 half
throttle

>However, if a change is engine would increase the train's max
>acceleration, it would be able to recover from such a lower speed at a
>faster rate, even though the max speed attainable would remain the same