Re: Tilt Train Record Broken

["David Martin" <d_martin@mountains.net.au>]

Always been leaders?
Twenty odd years ago, a travel guide described Qld trains as having been
purchased second-hand from India! Wasn't a bad description, either, from
what I know.


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David Proctor <thadocta@spam.ozemail.spam.com.spam.au> wrote in message
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> kevin green wrote in message <3747de79@grissom.powerup.com.au>...
> >I see the Tilt Train broke the speed record for a narrow gauge train
today
> >between M'boro and Bunbaberg, they say it was 210km/ph.
>
> Not just the narrow gauge record, but the Australian record as well!
>
> >That is fast for a narrow gauge train.
>
> Fast for an Australian train too!
>
> >The area that they did the trial in was a very flat, and
> >reletively straight area. The unit numbers were 303 and 304.
>
> Good luck to them too - QR and Westrail have alwasy been the leaders of
the
> pack as far as govt railways go in Australia.
>
> DaveP
>
>