The latest from CAF is the NSW new country train delivery has been pushed back five years from 2023 to 2028, due to the COVID 19 situation in Spain and other European countries involved in component supply.
This means the XPTs will need one more expensive refurbishing before being replaced - such a smart move, killing off local rolling stock manufacture for reasons of ideological bastardry.
These new trains, are of course, just as crap for long distance services as the XPTs they’re replacing, being intended for trips up to 300-400km, not 1,000km overnight or all-day runs.
Tony
> On 4 Jul 2020, at 4:49 pm, Matthew Geier matthew@...> 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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> NSW has no branch lines anymore.
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> 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.
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> Spanish coach builders have done quite well out of NSW, supplying two different vendors trams and 3 tram projects and now the XPT replacements.
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> The Sydney Alstom cars , except for the first 2 (or 4) were built in Spain, not in France.
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