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Re: Rail modifications to Gelong line?
- Subject: Re: Rail modifications to Gelong line?
- From: "Michael Walker" <walker@hotkey.net.au>
- Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 19:12:00 +1000
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>The plans are to just improve the tracks to allow 160kph running for
trains.
>The current ones aren't that fast (Sprinters - 130kph and long Pass trains
>115) but as part of privatisation, the new trains that the companies will
>buy are capable of 160 even though there was no plan to upgrade the tracks
>to that speed.
>
I thought the present Sprinters were built to be able to do 160 km/h?