Re: NR derailment near Dungog

["Graham Smith" <dysonsmith@hunterlink.net.au>]

Sightings this afternoon:

Double NR class light engine at the Mindaribba passing loop.

XPT at Maitland to be turned back. Great Lakes coaches in the Maitland
Station parking area to transfer passengers.

Local passenger services seem to be somewhat in disarray.

ABC Radio Newcastle news is attributing the accident correctly to an NRC
train, and is suggesting that the clearing of the wagons and reinstatement
of the line will take at least 36 hours.

Graham Smith

sean <sean@hello.springwood.rail> wrote in message
39b48887$0$26519$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au">news:39b48887$0$26519$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au...
> how long will it take to clear up? im leaving on the 1420 BNE XPT on
friday
> will that be affected?
>
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> "Erk" <erk@erkV69.au.com> wrote in message
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> > This of course will soon be blamed on CityRail by the media (with an
> Olympic
> > reference thrown in somewhere) and someone in this NG will say it was
> caused
> > by a person not wearing a tie.
> >
> > Another example of POT (Pre Olympic Tension?)
> >
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> > David Bromage wrote in message ...
> > |Heard on ABC radio that an NR steel train has derailed in the Hilldale
> > |tunnel near Dungog. XPT passengers are being bussed between Maitland
and
> > |Taree.
> > |
> > |Cheers
> > |David
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