Re: Jubilee Mass Report

["Daniel Bowen" <dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au>]

How did the trams go? I noticed a Z1 special sitting at East Brighton
terminus full of students, just in front of a waiting 64, around 9:15am.
What route from there would they have taken to get to Colonial?


Daniel
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"Andy B" <gunzel0@optushome.com.au> wrote in message
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> Caught the 0729 Up from Nunawading.   The driver on this service gave
> passengers time updates at every major station (Camberwell, Richmond,
etc).
> At Richmond after giving everyone the time, he gave us the word of the
day,
> which was "Spuddle".  I can't remember what it meant :-)
>
> Arrived SSS 0805, and had a quick cup of tea at Tracks cafe ($2.30!).
This
> gave an opportunity to watch the trams go past. Noted B1.2002 running
Route
> 96 at 0830, and at 0834 B2.2090 went past on Route 96 wth A3 signs saying
> "S022" in the front and side windows.
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> From about 0845 there was a fairly steady flow of students coming in.
Seems
> many of the younger students (primary) came earlier, the older ones seemed
> to arrive later.
>
> Connex and Bayside had many CSE's (and some management) on duty, in order
to
> direct children either to the subway or up the escalators. This had been
> pre-arranged to minimise congestion,  I guess.  It appeared that Connex
and
> Bayside CSEs were mixing together to help one another today, rather than
> just look after their own trains.  The CSE's were efficient, and had the
> trains unloaded in less than 2 mins.
>
> It appears Bayside were slightly more organised than Connex overall.
>
> I think all of Connex's trains were signed with posters on the front
window,
> or drivers door, for identification by teachers/students, and only about
70%
> of Bayside trains had this.
>
> From 0900 students were coming in thick and fast.
>
> The first signed train was B01, which was 342M ... 474M., which arrived 1
> min early.  Scheduled 0910, arr 0909.
>
> It appeared many of the younger children were diverted quickly into the
> subway, presumably for safety reasons, while the older kids took the
> escalators.
>
> I made notes on the trains being used for most special services.  List can
> be supplied on request.
>
> 571M was observed exiting the loop, with thick smoke pouring out of the
> engine.  One connex CSE was overheard saying something along the lines of
> "all those bloody new trains have dodgy brakes, how can they run them?"
>
> All in all, it was extremely well organised by Connex & Bayside, with
> minimal disruption to normal services.  There was some congestion with
kids
> in the subway, some waiting up to 5 mins to move through.
>
> I didn't stay around for the afternoon movements, too hot and too tired.
>
> I'll have pictures next week, too broke to get them done this week.
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