Re: Canberra 23/02

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

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As a casual rail bus driver myself i can never understand why people who use the train services all the time find it difficult to understand that a bus that has been called to transport them so they are not stranded should know the exact way to go.They would be more amused if they had to fend for themselves.
Don.

Melanie J. Dennis wrote:

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> My 'roving reporter' has uncovered further information from a third source - a passenger!  Apparently the early morning Xploder lived up to its name by the rear car (I think that was 2504) expiring at Queanbeyan.  A bus was hastily arranged but passengers had to instruct the driver how to drive to Goulburn via Bungendore and Tarago.  They were not amused!
> Xploded set apparently limped back to Canberra for assessment / repairs propelled by the other power car (which would have been 2525).
>
> Melanie Dennis & Gerardus Mol
> Australian Steam Group
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:   Keith Malcolm [SMTP:kmalcolm@tpg.com.au]
> Sent:   Friday, 25 February, 2000 5:48 PM
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> Subject:        Re: Canberra 23/02
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> At about 7:50 in the morning the set was being moved into the platform( I
> think). Later in the afternoon ( 16:30) the set was coupled to the
> afternoon set for departure at 5:20.
>
> Dave Malcolm
>
> At 10:55 AM 02/23/2000 +1100, you wrote:
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> >Sighting at Canberra station by my 'Roving reporter' (Gerardus) phoned in
> >at 10:18...
> >No.1 road (platform) - empty
> >No.2 road - 8011 on the front of the oil tanks  -  no sign of an assistant 48
> >No.3 road (ex-Arnott's Biscuit shed road)  Exploder set with engines
> >running and people wandering around it - rare to see one on this road.  Is
> >it possible that the early morning Canb. - Syd. Set has failed, hence its
> >removal to No.3 road probably by the 80 class?
> >
> >Melanie Dennis & Gerardus Mol
> >Australian Steam Group
> >meld.asg@netspeed.com.au
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> >
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