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Subject: Re: Tilt Train Record Broken
From: pcc@ocean.com.au (Les Brown)
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 14:07:05 GMT
Newsgroups: aus.rail
Organization: Customer of Connect.com.au Pty. Ltd.
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"David Proctor" <thadocta@spam.ozemail.spam.com.spam.au> wrote in
aus.rail:

>I certainly do not recall seeing anyone riding on the roof of a QR train.

A 25,000 volts AC cable just a few centimetres up is a great
dis-incentive to roof-travel. Not so in Victoria. 1,500 volts DC isn't
enough.

I hear in Manilla that the roofs of carriages are pitched to prevent
that as well as things being thrown onto carriages.

Les Brown

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