How do you come to this conclusion?
Chinese heavy industry cannot be compared to cheap electronic devices.
Besides, whatever you posted the reply from is quite probably majority Chinese parts.
You couldnt be more right. My laptop which I type this with is made in China.
Oh, and my laptop is utter crap.
So yes, just because people may be using chinese goods right now, doesnt mean to say it is good.
And yes, CHEAP chinese heavy industry can be compared to cheap electronic devices.
Its about time we started paying fair prices. Not going down the cheap crap route all the time. All we are doing is killing off our own industry.
Anyway, even the chinese dont like chinese designed trains. They prefer to copy European or Japanese trains.
Nobody was interested in this chinese crap except for Northern (at one point) and Alliance. But there was never really going to be any orders. Just look at the CSRE website. It was cheap and nasty, and never filled you with confidence. Even my dad had to laugh when they resorted to advertising a list of rolling stock prices on the back of RAIL Magazine.
I believe CSRE was run by some British people? Hell bent on killing off the rail industry with some absolute rubbish (only NZ have ordered chinese designed and built trains, and that was a nightmare). They should be ashamed of themselves, and I hope they have since run back to china and left us alone.
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The New Zealanders re-ordered 20 more of their heavy goods DL class.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=m-ocnyy8Y_s
So they must be happy with the logistics support chain.
Yes, because they needed extra locos. Best to keep a simple fleet. But its well known they were crap upon arrival. Obviously NZ thought it best to keep fixing crap (in the hope they could eventually make them reliable) than ordering a totally different type.