Talk:V/Line Sprinter

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I've filled in this gaping hole in Victorian rail coverage. I would have though that this article might have been created before now, like when the VLos were introduced, but anyway... The basic structure is carried over from the V/Locity article.

I haven't put in any in text citations yet - I'd rather leave that to somebody who knows how they work.

In addition, I'm not sure this is in all the categories that it fits in, so if anybody can see I've missed one or two...
 * Jb17kx (talk) 23:33, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

"High Speed" train
The article starts: "The Sprinter is a high speed diesel railcar train" I'd like to know what the justification is for calling an 130kmh/80mph train "high speed", when it travels at only 2/3 of the generally accepted 200kmh/125mph to be classed as "high speed". Comparable trains in other countries such as the slightly slower British Rail Class 150 and significantly faster British Rail Class 185 both omit any sort of speed term. Audigex (talk) 04:06, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * The Sprinters are high speed relative to Australian trains, not worldwide; in Australia few trains manage 160kph/100mph, so the general perception of "fast" is probably 115kph/70mph or higher.
 * Steamtostay (talk) 09:58, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * So surely "fast" would be the descriptor? "High Speed" is such a widely used phrase that it seems strange to use it in this context. Okay, it's not as inherent as perhaps phrases such as "supersonic" - but when talking about trains I maintain that 125mph is a reasonable minimum limit, giving the world as a comparison rather than a single continent. Otherwise I'd be tempted to compare the trains to other means of local transport and call it "slow" with comparison to domestic flight. Fast seems a good relative word, whereas high speed is more of a specific phrase.
 * Audigex (talk) 03:51, 29 June 2009 (UTC)