New Inter City trains

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Sydney Morning Herald --> $2.8 billion to be spent on airconditioned trains for NSW

The NSW government will spend $2.8 billion on a new fleet of intercity trains that it says will be more comfortable, potentially run faster, result in more jobs being created, and for the first time see airconditioning in all state train carriages.

About 65 new intercity trains, including about 520 new carriages, will carry passengers to the Central Coast, Newcastle, the Blue Mountains, and the Illawarra.

The state government will be funding the new trains itself and expects the first one to become available for passenger service in 2018. The rest of the fleet will be progressively rolled out from 2018 until 2024 ...

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/28-billion-to-be-spent-on-airconditioned-trains-for-nsw-20140508-zr6q0.html