Re: 620 Class In New Livery

["rod gayford" <rodjg@tpg.com.au>]

I meant they could have repowered the Budds. See the recent article in the
NSW ARHS Bulletin

Cheers

Rod

David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au> wrote in article
<3704C538.236BEB51@ozemail.com.au>...
> rod gayford wrote:
> 
> > What sort of morons in State Rail are spending money on old junk like
the
> > 620 Class. They could have used single deck inter urban trailer cars
> > locomotive hauled but got rid of them all.
> 
> No they could not.  The underframes were no good and not suitable for
> loco-hauling.
> 
> > They also cut up the Budd cars
> > which were air conditioned.
> 
> And your point is?  The budd cars were loco-hauled, meaning CityRail
would have
> to go and buy locos, as they don't own any.  Also, the turn around time
at
> Telarah would go up from 3 minutes to 15 minutes.  Same at Newcastle, and
there
> would be less platforms available.
> 
> --
> David Johnson
> CityRail Guard
> trainman@ozemail.com.au
> http://www.ozemail.com.au/~trainman/
> 
> 
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