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Re: Melbourne's Old Train Fleet
Ashley Wright wrote:
>
> On Mon, 05 Jan 1998 23:51:58 +1100, Rod Young <berlina@bigpond.com>
> wrote:
>
Double Deckers for Melbourne. The shorter Cars needed for Sydneys Old
> >Undergound[?] do not give us enough advantage over our Long cars. I am
> >also told that Comenge length Double Deck Cars would have some weight
> >problems, which our Engineers believe,are not able to be solved at this
> >time.
>
> How much different in length are the Melbourne trains compared to
> the Sydney types???.
>
The carrages on 4D are not only lower and narrower than a Tangara, they
are shorter as well.
If Melbourne can run longer cars than Sydney, why were the 4D cars
shortened ?. Were they shortened only to keep the length of a 4 car set
near that of a 3 car Comeng set ?
Its kinda amusing to find that the city with the widest track guage has
the narrowest loading guage and that the narrow guage cities have wide
loading guages.
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