Re: high speed tours (was: [VIC] R766 and R711 Ballarat tour.)

[James Brook <ajmbrook@ozemail.com.au>]

Michael Kurkowski wrote:

> On a final issue, WHY are the wooden cars now 80kph? I'm pretty sure I
> remember doing nut specials years ago on wooden cars at high speeds. What
> caused them to be de-rated to 80kph, and would there be any way
> whatsoever of reversing this?

I just remembered something odd, the wooden air-conditioned cars (Sitting and
Sleeping) are rated at 115kph but the wooden non air-conditioned sleeping
cars with SOP bogies (Goulburn, Coliban and Inman) are only 80kph. What's the
difference between the carriages?

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