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Re: [QLD] The last SX tin sets

Subject: Re: [QLD] The last SX tin sets
From: "Dave Proctor" <daproc@sd5.mailbank.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 15:45:29 +1100
Newsgroups: aus.rail
Organization: Optus Internet
References: <383d9b8f@news.st.net.au> <8E8A6E202telstraNews@vic.news.telstra.net>

Michael <mk@netstra.com.au> wrote in message
8E8A6E202telstraNews@vic.news.telstra.net">news:8E8A6E202telstraNews@vic.news.telstra.net...
> Hi,
>
> Since they do/did have driving cabs that were never used, how about
sending
> them to Melbourne for conversion to a DMU set to use on the Stony Point
> line? How would the cost differ say, compared to dedicating one (or two,
> three) sprinters for that line, after the A's all get taken out of VLP
> service?

I would have thought that Victorians would have been scarred for life by the
last attempt to bring in retired rolling stock from interstate.

--
DaveProctor
thadocta AT dingoblue.net.au

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