Re: [VIC] Burnley Failure This Morning

[Mark Bau <markbau@altavista.com>]

> From: Sam Eades <eadess@yahoo.com>
> Organization: Melbourne PC User Group Inc, Australia
> Newsgroups: aus.rail
> Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 16:57:18 +1100
> Subject: [VIC] Burnley Failure This Morning
> 
> This morning, there was a major problem with the brakes on a Hitachi set
> (a burst hose bag?) on an up journey from GWY in the morning peak, just
> before 0800. It was at BLY and was blocking all up trains. The disabled
> set was eventualy pushed onto the up BLY Through line and all up
> services ran on the BLY local lines.

I very much doubt that a burst hosebag would cause a train to be pushed
clear. A hosebag shouldn't take any more than 10 minutes to fix. Assuming it
was a train problem and not a signal problem the most likely scenario would
be some sort of lead motor controller problem. Without a guard you are in
deep dodo when your lead motor stuffs up.

Mark