Re: Air springs
  Matthew Geier


On 4/7/20 4:36 pm, Dudley wrote:
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> Query, are the XPT cars really in such poor condition that they have to be replaced?  Is the steelwork so rusted/fatigued that they must go?  Can they not be reused for branch line services, with air sprung bogies, in a similar manner to the reuse of the Harris cars in Victoria?

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What branch lines services ?

NSW has no branch lines anymore.

I gather the CAF trains will replace both the XPT sets and the some what newer Xplorer railcars leaving just one type of 'long distance' train in NSW.

Spanish coach builders have done quite well out of NSW, supplying two different vendors trams and 3 tram projects and now the XPT replacements.

The Sydney Alstom cars , except for the first 2 (or 4) were built in Spain, not in France.