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    From tomw@tom.worthington@tomw.net.au to aus.rail on Tue May 5 23:22:20 2020
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    France has deployed a TGV very high speed train as a mobile hospital, and ambulance. This can treat 25 patients and transport them at 320 km/h. Does Australia have any not so fast hospital trains? https://www.railwaygazette.com/high-speed/sncf-deploys-hospital-tgv/56110.article
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  • From Matthew Geier@matthew@sleeper.apana.org.au to aus.rail on Wed May 6 01:32:40 2020
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    On Wednesday, 6 May 2020 16:22:21 UTC+10, tomw wrote:
    France has deployed a TGV very high speed train as a mobile hospital, and ambulance. This can treat 25 patients and transport them at 320 km/h. Does Australia have any not so fast hospital trains? https://www.railwaygazette.com/high-speed/sncf-deploys-hospital-tgv/56110.article
    France also has a history of 'hospital trains', with such trains of conventional coaches running to Lourdes semi-regularly so the ill can 'take the waters' from the sacred spring.
    So a TGV so fitted isn't such a way out an idea for them. They may even keep it after the current crisis and run hospital TGVs to Lourdes. Lourdes is electrified so the TGV train can get there. (The region has this amazing looking 'inclined catenary' style).
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  • From Sylvia Else@sylvia@email.invalid to aus.rail on Wed May 6 18:41:00 2020
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    On 06-May-20 4:22 pm, tomw wrote:
    France has deployed a TGV very high speed train as a mobile hospital, and ambulance. This can treat 25 patients and transport them at 320 km/h. Does Australia have any not so fast hospital trains? https://www.railwaygazette.com/high-speed/sncf-deploys-hospital-tgv/56110.article


    Unless governments seriously drop the ball, by relaxing restrictions too
    soon, we're not going to have enough cases to justify it, even where the trains are the fastest way to travel between population centres.

    Sylvia.
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  • From Matthew Geier@matthew@sleeper.apana.org.au to aus.rail on Wed May 6 15:12:39 2020
    From Newsgroup: aus.rail

    On Wednesday, 6 May 2020 18:41:01 UTC+10, Sylvia Else wrote:
    Unless governments seriously drop the ball, by relaxing restrictions too soon, we're not going to have enough cases to justify it, even where the trains are the fastest way to travel between population centres.
    The physical layout of France supports the idea - spread out large regional centres with full facilities, so using a TGV set to 'even out' the load on the regional hospitals my moving patents from harder-hit areas sort of makes sense.
    Australia, on the other hand, is heavily concentrated into a small number of cities with all the services similarly concentrated and rather sparse towns with sparse services. There simply wouldn't be the demand to move patients from Dubbo to Orange for example, and given the state of our regional railways, the patents would die of old age before arriving at the other town anyway. Anyone that critical would be flown to the state capital city if it came to that.
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