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    • justarider posted
    Posted in Victoria » Standard Gauge VLocity


    VLO 3 car set, --- Top speed 210kph, de-scaled to 160kph
    "justarider"

    Ive always had a problem with this sort of thinking.  Nowhere in the country can a train do 210kph so why do we get trains that are capable of this and derate them?  Why not get a train that is designed to do the track speed that it has to work with instead of pretend that track upgrades are going to happen in the life of the train?  Surely the extra speed rating costs extra in the design?
    "james.au"

    Why indeed !
    So that a VLO can do 160kph in an easy canter, wheras the CAF will be absolutely busting a gut. That costs fuel big time.

    My car can do 200kph according to the book. Do I ever? Of course not.

    cheers
    John

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    Edited 02 Oct 2020 10:21, 3 months ago, edited by justarider


    VLO 3 car set, --- Top speed 210kph, de-scaled to 160kph
    "justarider"

    Ive always had a problem with this sort of thinking.  Nowhere in the country can a train do 210kph so why do we get trains that are capable of this and derate them?  Why not get a train that is designed to do the track speed that it has to work with instead of pretend that track upgrades are going to happen in the life of the train?  Surely the extra speed rating costs extra in the design?
    "james.au"

    Why indeed !
    So that a VLO can do 160kph in an easy canter, wheras the CAF will be absolutely busting a gut. That costs fuel big time.

    cheers
    John