Re: Yet another Sydney derailment

["Jonathan Boles" <mousewithglasses@NO.CANNED.HAM.hotmail.com>]

What time was the derailment? Did it affect pm peak etc?

Garry Hoddinett <hoddos@netspace.net.au> wrote in article
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> > Just heard on the radio that a train has derailed at Hornsby.  Only a
> minor
> > derailment.
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> I was on a train where the guard said there was a "signal failure"  while
> the station staff at Waitara said a "derailment".   There were extensive
> delays to Shore line trains entering/ leaving Hornsby with trains queing
> down the Shore line with only a hundred metres or so between them.
> What was interesting though was that the guard actually gave a reason
rather
> than leave passengers in the dark (as is more typical).  Fortunately I
was
> on a train stuck at Waitara Station and I suggested to the guard that he
> notify passengers if the service (once it got to Hornsby) would be
cancelled
> beyond Hornsby (it was a Berowra bound service).  He notified passengers
> that the service would indeed terminate at Hornsby - and a lot of
passengers
> alighted at Waitara and the mobile phone lines went berserk!
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