Re: [VIC] Burnley Failure This Morning

["Graeme Cleak" <gcleak@optusnet.com.au>]

Evening All.
The defective train involved had actually come from Burnley Stabling
Sidings, but did not get far.  Reason for long delay, was difficulty in
using the adaptor coupling between Comeng & Hitachi motors.  I understand
that four attempts were made before  "it" was successful.  The dead set was
pushed into Burnley station, and zig zagged to change lines and eventually
went to Ringwood.

Graeme Cleak.


Mark Bau <markbau@altavista.com> wrote in message
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> > 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
>