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| Thread ID: 136941 | 2014-05-04 10:11:00 | Auckland's New EMUs | Roscoe (6288) | PC World Chat |
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| 1374117 | 2014-05-04 10:11:00 | Tried out the new EMUs on the Onehunga line on Friday. They are lovely, bright and clean but are not as comfortable as one would expect. The seats are hard. In particular, they are quiet and the acceleration is impressive. SWMBO likes to listen to her audio books as she travels but it is impossible with the old DMUs. What a difference on the EMUs. Our opinion? Well worth the wait. Have a ride as soon as you can. |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1374118 | 2014-05-04 10:20:00 | I'm not too fussed about the seats, although they should wear in with use (but hopefully not as much as the diesel fleet's seats, some of them are basically just bags of fluff). I'm also impressed with the way AT have been handling the passenger operated doors, letting people know how to use them at every opportunity - they've obviously learned from Wellington :thumbs: And the disabled access is fantastic, even coming from an able bodied person like me :D |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1374119 | 2014-05-04 20:45:00 | Not everybody has forgotten the old days when train door opening was a service provided free by the train staff. Do they give discounts to passengers now forced to operate the train controls? ;) |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1374120 | 2014-05-04 21:41:00 | Yeah. We tried them to Onehunga on Friday. The seats were not too much of a problem as that's about how they are on the buses. My only complaint was at the Onehunga terminal that the doors were not locked open as they kept closing on people trying to get in and out.. They were locked open at Britomart .. But a nice quiet and smooth ride even though some of the track around Remers is nearly out of the third world it's so rough.. I see a piece in the Herald today about the trains having their speed locked down too much.. www.nzherald.co.nz PS. Did you buy a souvenir HOP card?? |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 1374121 | 2014-05-04 22:29:00 | Not everybody has forgotten the old days when train door opening was a service provided free by the train staff. Do they give discounts to passengers now forced to operate the train controls? ;) Would you rather have the doors open just to let the weather in because no one used it? :illogical PS. Did you buy a souvenir HOP card?? I did. I felt obliged to, as it has my photo on it ;) |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1374122 | 2014-05-04 22:46:00 | :D Would someone buy Maryann & I a plane ride & a motel so that we could go up & try the new trains? PJ | Poppa John (284) | ||
| 1374123 | 2014-05-04 22:58:00 | Using the Wellington trains, I admit to struggling with the quieter trains when they first came in. For starters, everyone kept their music up at the old level, so you could (in most cases) unfortunately hear the music clearly and the only way around this was to turn your own music up. |
the_bogan (9949) | ||
| 1374124 | 2014-05-04 23:01:00 | :D Would someone buy Maryann & I a plane ride & a motel so that we could go up & try the new trains? PJ I'm sure someone could oblige and send you a photo. |
Whenu (9358) | ||
| 1374125 | 2014-05-04 23:44:00 | Just come back from Oz where we travelled up and around Sydneys Central Coast. They have about one third of the carriages designated as "Quiet carriages". Mind you travel time to Sydney by express is 90 minutes or stop at each station 2 hrs, so you wouldn't want some idiots loud music waking you up. Ken |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1374126 | 2014-05-05 02:21:00 | :D Would someone buy Maryann & I a plane ride & a motel so that we could go up & try the new trains? PJ It's not worth it. They might be pretty and quiet but they are not cheap. Nor can you get one from all points. Aucklands public transport remains slow, expensive and patchy. Until it is not, I don't care what the train looks or sounds like. |
pctek (84) | ||
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