Re: What to do with XPT?

["David Proctor" <daproc.spambait@umpires.com>]

David Bromage wrote in message <75ivbm$5ph$17@news.mel.aone.net.au>...

>Yes, but the modifications would not be easy or cheap. The Mk III does not
>have a body profile designed for tilting. You wouldn't be able to tilt
>very much before you were out of gauge. Also the bogie/frame arrangement
>was not designed to take the tilting mechanism.

Modifications were very easy and very cheap. As was pointed out in a
previous posting, the Mark 3's were built for the British structure gauge
(RA8 if memory serves me correctly) - the European structure gauge is far
more generous, and the cars well and truely fitted, even when at maximum
tilt.

David Proctor
daproc.spambait@umpires.com