raykirk_747
Train Attendant
- Joined
- Mar 26, 2004
- Messages
- 16
Over here in Westerm Australia. A new Prospector the speed it get up to 160km or 99mph Perth to Kalgoorlie travel time about 6h old Prospector travle time 7h.45min here is a history.
Old Prospector TOTAL Time 7h:45m Mon to Sat
East Perth Dep 07:15 (AWST)
Kalgoorlie Arr 15:00 (AWST)
new Prospector TOTAL Time 6h:00m Mon to Sat
East Perth Dep 07:15 (AWST)
Kalgoorlie Arr 13:15 (AWST)
When the first Prospector came into service in 1971, television and cinema advertising hailed it as a modern rail link to Western Australia's Goldfields frontier. It was WA's great rail journey - to be taken in relaxed comfort. In many respects, that train represented a greater leap forward for its time than the new Prospector will in ours. Importantly, the Prospector marked the switch from narrow to standard gauge rail in country passenger services - cutting the travel time and increasing ride comfort.
It was Australia's fastest train and the first to offer an “airline style” full-meal service. The 14-hour overnight journey endured by passengers on the old Kalgoorlie Express, a diesel (originally steam) locomotive-hauled train with carriages and sleeping compartments, was cut to less than eight hours. Passengers were treated to such luxurious and unprecedented features as air conditioning, personal call buttons, reading lights and a public address/music system.
The Prospector was one of the earliest diesel/hydraulic trains in service and similar engines have since been used all over the world. Indeed, similar propulsion technology, albeit computer controlled, will be used in the new Prospector. With a view to making the original Prospector last until now, it was updated during the 1990s with new engines and braking systems, but the interior design of the cars is original, apart from several refurbishments.
In terms of the original Prospector one point is very clear. After 32 years transporting about 2.6 million passengers and travelling more than 20 million kilometres on the journey between Perth and Kalgoorlie, the Prospector has earned pride of place in WA rail history.
PTA
Now if Amtrak wot high speed have Limited Servvice From LAX-CHI Cut the travle time.Wot going on in Westerm Australia For you go to Transwa But i am help you have idear for you Bye for now
GOOD NEWS new Prospector START DATE IS 28/06/2004 IT WILL BE UP AN RUN
Old Prospector TOTAL Time 7h:45m Mon to Sat
East Perth Dep 07:15 (AWST)
Kalgoorlie Arr 15:00 (AWST)
new Prospector TOTAL Time 6h:00m Mon to Sat
East Perth Dep 07:15 (AWST)
Kalgoorlie Arr 13:15 (AWST)
When the first Prospector came into service in 1971, television and cinema advertising hailed it as a modern rail link to Western Australia's Goldfields frontier. It was WA's great rail journey - to be taken in relaxed comfort. In many respects, that train represented a greater leap forward for its time than the new Prospector will in ours. Importantly, the Prospector marked the switch from narrow to standard gauge rail in country passenger services - cutting the travel time and increasing ride comfort.
It was Australia's fastest train and the first to offer an “airline style” full-meal service. The 14-hour overnight journey endured by passengers on the old Kalgoorlie Express, a diesel (originally steam) locomotive-hauled train with carriages and sleeping compartments, was cut to less than eight hours. Passengers were treated to such luxurious and unprecedented features as air conditioning, personal call buttons, reading lights and a public address/music system.
The Prospector was one of the earliest diesel/hydraulic trains in service and similar engines have since been used all over the world. Indeed, similar propulsion technology, albeit computer controlled, will be used in the new Prospector. With a view to making the original Prospector last until now, it was updated during the 1990s with new engines and braking systems, but the interior design of the cars is original, apart from several refurbishments.
In terms of the original Prospector one point is very clear. After 32 years transporting about 2.6 million passengers and travelling more than 20 million kilometres on the journey between Perth and Kalgoorlie, the Prospector has earned pride of place in WA rail history.
PTA
Now if Amtrak wot high speed have Limited Servvice From LAX-CHI Cut the travle time.Wot going on in Westerm Australia For you go to Transwa But i am help you have idear for you Bye for now
GOOD NEWS new Prospector START DATE IS 28/06/2004 IT WILL BE UP AN RUN
