Re: [NSW] Olympic TT - Day 2

["Chris Downs" <cvdowns@ozemail.com.au>]

It's a bit hard to lock the car off and get passengers to use the remaining
cars as CityRail can do.  Temporary removal from service is probably the
only realistic option.

Chris

Tezza <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
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> "Ted Gay" <tedgay@bigpond.com> wrote in message news:NBDw5.51720
> > "Chris Downs" <cvdowns@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
> > On the Sydney trams good loadings were experienced. Started my shift at
> > 18:30, there were plenty of passengers travelling from stops on the
Westex
> > to Pyrmont Bay but by 20:00 things were very quiet.
> >
> > Everything came alive when the crowds started to head home.  A new
> > experience leaving Star City on the Down, as opposed to the Up, with a
> crush
> > load.  Six trams in service at 01:00 when things came apart.  I left
> Central
> > Station about 01:10.  The two following trams both had to be withdrawn
> from
> > service due to "protein spills" and returned to the depot for cleaning,
> this
> > through the headway into disaray.  When I knocked-off at 02:30, the four
> > trams in service were still running to Lilyfield.
>
>
> They took a tram out of service just for that? Thank Christ they don't do
> that for the trains.
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