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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jun 20, 2016 14:23:12 GMT 12
Heading out to burn a thousand kg or so are you KTJ? I burn through about 455 litres of diesel on every return trip to Wellington and the fuel tank holds around 3,900 litres. However, to put it into perspective, I had 356 passengers onboard heading through the tunnel to Wellington this morning and about 45 heading back to Wairarapa, so work that out how many litres per passenger got burnt and how economical, considering it is 91 kilometres by rail from Masterton to Wellington (less than the distance by road). That fuel gets sucked through a 12-cylinder turbocharged two-stroke diesel engine displacing 7,740 cubic inches, or 645 cubic inches displacement per cylinder. I'm glad I'm not paying for the fuel bill; however the contract price per litre will be considerably less than what you or I would get charged at the pump at service station forecourt prices.
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