Re: [VIC] Hillside Hitachi

["Samuel Eades" <seades@bigpond.net.au>]

Andrew Box <boxy@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
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> I All
>
> I was traveling on the second car of a hitachi train heading to flinders
st
> from glenferrie and something really strange happened, the carriage I was
on
> died between burnly and est richmond, all the lights went out and that
tone
> that means the doors r open sounded.  As I was siting in one of the seats
> near a door, I opened it.
Why?

> It was the first time in a long time I have been
> on a suburban train in Melbourne with doors open whilst it is in motion.
> Unfortunately just after we had run through est richmond the lights came
> back on and the doors closed.  I was wondering if anyone knew why this
could
> have happened, it did not seem to affect any of the other carriages and
the
> train was still accelerating.  Just on a side note have the hitachi's
always
> had auto-closing doors or was it added later?

The train probably lost power. If a train looses power, the lights go out
and the doors will unlock (seems silly to me, I would have thought that the
last thing that you would want during a power failure is passengers jumping
out of a train). Seeing it only affected your car, perhaps it was an
electrical cable? When the lights came on and the doors closed, the power
would have been restored. Was it an M or a T car?
Hitachis have always had power doors.