Re: Why repaint/refurbish the Tulloch Trailers

[Bob <gioia@fastlink.com.au>]

McFergus@my-dejanews.com wrote:

> In article <6lsl6b$guc$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
>   daproc@bigfoot.com wrote:
> >
> > In article <358113af.7879924@news.ozemail.com.au>,
> >   nswsrca@ozemail.com.au wrote:
> >
> > > It would be great if they asked the travelling public about fixed
> > > seats in subbie sets!
> >
> > oh no, we aren't getting started on THAT again are we? I don't have a problem
> > with them - Sydney commuters have been spoilt for far too long with
> > bi-directional seating. No other city in Australia has them for suburban
> > trains, and there is really no need for them on short journeys (up to 90
> > minutes or so). The lack of the mechanism for changing the direction the seat
> > is facing makes the carriage easier to clean (although this is not an issue
> > in Sydney :-p ) and reduces the incidence of breakdown.
> >
>
> Fixed seats have been quite unpopular in Sydney, and on the Outer Suburban
> Tangaras, as well as the planned 4G double deckers, bi-directional seating is
> used. Mind you, this is largely academic, as I doubt we'll see the new trains
> for a while, at least not while Carr & Co keep finding other uses for the
> money - like partially removing tolls off motorways. Maybe they'd like to
> offer rail commuters a scheme whereby those travelling on the East Hills and
> Western lines can get the price of their tickets refunded if they carry a
> CityRail Cashback card...
>

The 4GT tender is to be announced verrry sooon. The Clyde proposed version DOES
have reversable seats. They felt this gave them an advantage over the Gonninan
design with fixed seats. The contract calls for 80 cars to be delivered by May
2000. I suspect that some of the money may come from the sale of the TAB.

> I know that people on this ng bag out Photios, but can he be worse than the
> clowns that are running the circus at the moment?
>
> The present management are a bunch of twits but not clowns. Photios is the clown
> and his circus is driving around looking for a town to perform at.

Bob