Re: [NSW]SRA Fire Protection Group

[matthew@mail.usyd.edu.au (Matthew Geier)]

In article <85c3pk$2h5f$1@otis.netspace.net.au>,
Robert Parnell <rparnell@netspace.net.au> wrote:
>
>> The State Rail Fire protection group has been disbanded from what I can
>tell.
>> There are only a couple of guys left, and they are now training officers
>for
>> Australian Rail Training.
>>
>>
>They still do exist - I don't know how big. There is a vehicle driving
>around with the SRA Fire group crest on it, and also has flashing lights as
>fitted to police/emergency vehicles. The bloke who drives it can often be
>found at the SRA fleet maintenance depots (I have seen him at Eveliegh and
>XPT service centre) testing fire extinguishers very frequently. I can even
>tell you where he buys his lunch from...
>
>I worked at an SRA fire group dwelling at Wilson St about 1996 to repair an
>SRA phone line that one of the neighbours had removed during his
>renovations. I'm not sure if they are still there or not.

 A friend recently bought one of those terraces. I'm not surprised they
lost their phone line. One by one the SRA has been selling the terraces
off, but the SRA techs had just stapled their phone lines across the front
on the entire row. One by one as the now private terraces are renovated,
the new owners rip all the telephone wire off the the front of their houses.
I don't think any are owned by the railways anymore so it doesnt matter now.
 I have a krone test block I removed from a rather dirty krone junction
block at my friends house. It was probably the junction that feed the
row of terraces. It doesn't work now, my friends have started renovating
their rather run down terrace and started pulling of the layers of telephone
cables that adorn their terrace!.

 Some how the railways have managed to keep the electricty sane, although
the water pipes tend to cross between the terraces like the SRA phone
lines did.

 I also reasonably frequently walk to down Wilson St on the way to work, the
fire service still seems to have a truck and a great deal of equipment.