November 6, 2025 • 3 mins
Is it finally going to happen?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda jam Nason.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
You train into what you formed last night, in which
you did a magnificent job.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Thank you, Thank you. We'll be able to talk more
about that.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Yeah, allowed letting the cat out of the bag, but
really this is going to be team's success for series
two of the Piano and on the train, it gave
me pause for for the Tangara train, as we know,
it is now forty years old, and instead of getting
rid of them, they're pimping them. They're fixing them up there,
dazzling them, they're putting some new stuff, they're lowing it.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
So it's fully sick. Man. Now they're pretty good.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
So forty years of Tangara train, forty years and I
was the reason I bring this up. There's a news story.
You know what's back again, The VFT, the.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Very Fast Train.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
It was on our news last time on.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Almost as old as the tangaras talk of a high
speed rail link down the East Coast. The Federal Rail
Authority now revealing plans to introduce one in three stages
from Newcastle to the Central Coast, then to the Sydney
CBD and finally Paramatta and the new Western Sydney airport
work would start in twenty twenty seven, with the first
(01:08):
services ten years later and the line completed in twenty
forty two or twenty forty two.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
When they say would meaning, they're not saying will be
still it's still just a brochure.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
We've been down this road before, or rail before, remember
Count of Ferris's story.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Just last year in the nineteen nineties, John Howard was
the nation's conductor. It is with great pleasure I announced
its speed rail as the successful consortium.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
In October two thousand and three.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
The people of Australia will be able to travel at
three hundred and twenty kilometers per hour on the speed rail.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
The years go by until Kevin O seven climbs on
board with an announcement of another study. Three years later,
another announcement that the study was now a report on
track implementing high speed rail in Australia so that you
can get from Sydney to Melbourne CBD to CBD in
(02:03):
under three hours, except you couldn't and rud ran out
of steam and got rolled in the election that year.
High speed rail was off the rails until twenty sixteen,
when Malcolm Turnbull was in the driver's seat, But then
the Liberals decided to do the sco moo motion and
rail enthusiasts had to wait for Albow two point zero.
(02:26):
And if I'm elected Prime Minister, I want ours to
be the first government that actually gets work underway on high.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Speed rail federal high speed rail authorities.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
But at the end, that's from utopia, that's that's.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
It may as well be real.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
The why don't we have it? Albo osis a fast train.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Sydney Melbourne three hours now, I can't white
Jersey and Amanda jam Nason.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
You train into what you formed last night, in which
you did a magnificent job.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Thank you, Thank you. We'll be able to talk more
about that.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Yeah, allowed letting the cat out of the bag, but
really this is going to be team's success for series
two of the Piano and on the train, it gave
me pause for for the Tangara train, as we know,
it is now forty years old, and instead of getting
rid of them, they're pimping them. They're fixing them up there,
dazzling them, they're putting some new stuff, they're lowing it.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
So it's fully sick. Man. Now they're pretty good.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
So forty years of Tangara train, forty years and I
was the reason I bring this up. There's a news story.
You know what's back again, The VFT, the.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Very Fast Train.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
It was on our news last time on.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Almost as old as the tangaras talk of a high
speed rail link down the East Coast. The Federal Rail
Authority now revealing plans to introduce one in three stages
from Newcastle to the Central Coast, then to the Sydney
CBD and finally Paramatta and the new Western Sydney airport
work would start in twenty twenty seven, with the first
(01:08):
services ten years later and the line completed in twenty
forty two or twenty forty two.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
When they say would meaning, they're not saying will be
still it's still just a brochure.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
We've been down this road before, or rail before, remember
Count of Ferris's story.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Just last year in the nineteen nineties, John Howard was
the nation's conductor. It is with great pleasure I announced
its speed rail as the successful consortium.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
In October two thousand and three.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
The people of Australia will be able to travel at
three hundred and twenty kilometers per hour on the speed rail.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
The years go by until Kevin O seven climbs on
board with an announcement of another study. Three years later,
another announcement that the study was now a report on
track implementing high speed rail in Australia so that you
can get from Sydney to Melbourne CBD to CBD in
(02:03):
under three hours, except you couldn't and rud ran out
of steam and got rolled in the election that year.
High speed rail was off the rails until twenty sixteen,
when Malcolm Turnbull was in the driver's seat, But then
the Liberals decided to do the sco moo motion and
rail enthusiasts had to wait for Albow two point zero.
(02:26):
And if I'm elected Prime Minister, I want ours to
be the first government that actually gets work underway on high.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Speed rail federal high speed rail authorities.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
But at the end, that's from utopia, that's that's.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
It may as well be real.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
The why don't we have it? Albo osis a fast train.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Sydney Melbourne three hours now, I can't white
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