Re: [NSW] 81 + 48 on 8 car V set (dead) down Blue Mountains NOW - 7pm

["Sean" <NoSpam@Hello.Springwood.Rail>]

At 7 something last night I wasn't looking at the time a 81 loco with an 4
car V set was going on the UP passing Springwood.
did any trains get fried by the lighting going though the system? but I
heard that lighting only struck a base station....


"Stephen Tolhurst" <stephen@mail.usyd.edu.au> wrote in message
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> "Erk" <erk@erkV69.au.com> writes:
>
> >Chris
>
>
> >"Chris Downs" <cvdowns@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
> >Eh4T5.42368$SF5.763492@ozemail.com.au">news:Eh4T5.42368$SF5.763492@ozemail.com.au...
> >| 8160 + 4853 passed through Hazelbrook at 6:46pm on an up disabled 8 car
V
> >| set.
> >|
> >| That probably means (approx):
> >| Springwood    7:00pm
> >| Penrith            7:20pm
> >| Blacktown      7:35pm
> >| Parramatta    7:40 pm
> >|
> >| for anyone who has a camera handy
> >|
> >| Go get it
> >|
> >| chris
> >|
> >|
>
> >Empty cars or as a passenger service? Unfortunately for me, I read this
> >message too late!
>
> Another V set was diesel hauled east by a 81 class earlier.  When I
> arrived at Springwood on the 6pm ex central the 81-48 combo were at
> ValleyHeights, they followed the 6p service up the hill.  The single 81
> with V set came through on the up about the same time as the 81+48 left
> Springwood.
>
> The signal electrician I spoke to at Springwood said the overhead on
> the up had been damaged by lightning at Hazelbrook.  (He was fixing the
> pedestrian level crossing bells which were ringing continualy as a
> result of lightning damage from the same storm).
>
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