Re: [Melb] Major problems on the Husrtbridge Line

["James C" <jamesccj@optusnet.com.au>]

Damn trees..........as much as I like green space I hate when mother nature
blocked trains....

Cheers
James



Chris Gordon <cmgord@alphalink.com.au> wrote in message
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> Afternoon All,
> Today was not a good day for the Hurstbridge line, there was a tree down
> at Diamond Creek causing a power loss to that section, and a power loss
> to Heidelberg caused signalling failures at Heidelberg.  This power
> failure also effected the Lower Plenty Road level crossing at Rosanna.
>
> They started the day with no trains running in the Hurstbridge - Clifton
> Hill section with some buses running, but I understand by the morning
> peak they were running about 50% of the up trains from Eltham and
> Greensborough.
>
>
> (Just think if this happened in Sydney there would have been 100
> messages to aus.rail by now).
>
>
> --
>
> Chris Gordon
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