Re: next weekend? Diesels in the Underground.

[Don Allitt <nahgfa@zeta.org.au>]

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Evening bevan, I have somewhere a video of  a jumbo filling the air with
smoke and just as it clears a bit there was another jumbo on the tail
pushing.Ahh those were the days.
Don.

Bevan Wall wrote:

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> Another reason is that a recently overhauled smoke/fire detection
> system installed ay Wynyard and Town Hall is acticated by the exhaust
> from diesels. I was on Wynyard platform to video the GSPEwhen it
> worked through the underground on its way to Lavender Bay during its
> first visit to Sydney in 1998, and about an hour before hand a team of
> firemen, etc, arrived to turn the system off and then positioned
> themselves around the platforms to manually check for any fires that
> may have started during the period the system was deactivated. One of
> them told me that it would take nearly an hour after the train had
> past for the fumes to disperse enough before the system could be
> turned back on. It must have cost a fortune just to have all these
> guys standing around for two or more hours.
> I can recall videoing two 44s that came to a stand at the entrance to
> Town Hall platform with the express from Grafton during Easter 1993,
> and when they powered up and blasted through the station not only was
> the noise deafening but the exhaust fumes were so thick that
> visibility was reduced dramatically and many people waiting for trains
> had to stagger up to street level for fresh air - it certainly made
> for a great piece of video!!!!!!
>
> On Tue, 08 Feb 2000 18:44:29 +1100, you wrote:
>
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> >Afternoon, I beleive there can be no diesal hauled freight or otherwise
> >thru the city, due to vibration has caused a problem with the sandstone
> >tunells.
> >Don.
>
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