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Re: Standardisation


Barry Campbell wrote in message <370A8BB5.4FD4BE8B@qimr.edu.au>...
>David & Jan Winter wrote:
>>
>> This is TALGO technology, and I'm keen to see at least one corridor
trialled
>> in Oz,
>> perhaps for an otherwise no-go freight opportunity. Maybe, once the
private
>> VLF
>> and Westrail freight get going, we'll see some initiatives - can hope, I
>> s'pose.
>>
>What possible freight would this be? Has Talgo technology been tried
>with 75 tonne mass vehicles or between standard and 1067mm gauges?
>

Why should the mass be significant? Presumbaly whatever locks the wheels in
place can be made suitably strong and positive enough to cope with the
dynamic forces involved. I was also thinking mainly of the 1435/1600 mm
change. Talgo is 1435/1676 mm, I think.
Rgds
Ron BEST
>Barry Campbell