East Coast High Speed Rail

[eddy]

I read they are not making any more tilt trains as there is insufficient demand with people building straight tracks for HSR

Source please.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/2014081 ... rains-fast

[tonyp]

One current example:

http://www.alstom.com/products-services ... pendolino/

There are a lot of countries that have limited ability to rebuild their railway systems.

There was a piece in the Telegraph yesterday about high speed rail between Newcastle and Nowra but there doesn't seem to be an electronic version.

[Tonymercury]

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[Tonymercury]

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/2014081 ... rains-fast

Perhaps you might try reading that article and discover that it is saying the opposite thing, indeed mentioning some new trains.

Then try another source for your original statement.

[eddy]

However, not everybody believes in the benefit of tilt. Germany’s Siemens, for example, developed its own tilting system, dubbed “Siemens comfort technique”. The technology was never rolled out, because – in the words of a Siemens spokesman – “the demand for tilting trains is low”.

Humble apologies I should have said Siemens.

There is another aspect that is a problem with trains whooshing around corners and that is if you are trying to drive a truck across a level crossing even a freight train is too fast to see them coming before you get across the tracks and I had to chance it at Johns river and near Mudgee a couple of times.

[boronia]

Something on Ch 7 News promo tonight about an expected Government announcement of "East coast high speed rail" over the weekiend.

[moa999]

Much ado about nothing for now, maybe something next week.

From twitter
https://twitter.com/7NewsSydney/status/ ... 43776?s=19