Re: [VIC] Hillside Hitachi

["B." <gunzel412@dingoblue.gunzel.net.au>]

Daniel Bowen <dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au> wrote in message
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>>> Once I was on a Stony Point service during summer, the
>>> aircondition wasn't working well, I saw people just push the
>>> door open to get more air. 2 school kids sit by the door lean
>>> out and quickly closed the door when connie came around.

>> The MTH cars as used on the Stony Point pass do NOT have
>> closing doors, they just have the old harris doors which can
>> be opened and closed at any time.

> Except the Harris trains in their original incarnation had a
> bar between the double doors, so the gap wasn't so gaping wide.

> Are they still used on other country services? I remember going
> from Melbourne to Ballan in a train like that a couple of years
> ago. Any history of people falling out of them?

The H sets do have power doors, controlled by the Conductor.  If
you look beside the door towards the roof you will see a
keyswitch, this is the control.

It's only the MTH's (originally refurbished to be DRC trailers)
that have manual sliding doors.

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B.

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