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Old 9th September 2009, 21:17
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Originally Posted by steam for ever View Post

I come back to the fact that it is expensive.
I metioned this to begn with and Pre65 has actually strengthened my point.
25000 volts over a long distance is going to eat up the cash.
My knowledge may be flawed but so may be the system.
Remember that deisel and electric traction was considered only for shunting work.
Wonder why?
I'm sorry, but if you keep this drivel up I will get annoyed.

PLEASE do not post anything more about the electric infrastructure untill you have an understanding of it.

The whole point of transforming the electric up to 25KV is that it IS cheaper to transmit.
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