Re: Connex train splitting

["Les Chandra" <les_chandra@asparagus.hotmail.com>]

I recall in Japan a few years ago being on an outer suburban express that
split somewhere. There were copious announcments over the pa before and
during the split, and after the front half had left there was an
announcement on our half something like:
"This train does NOT go to Hachioji" :)

Les

"Roderick Smith" <rodsmith@werple.net.au> wrote in message
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> There is also the problem of booting the customers out while it is done.
I
> contacted the company, and was told that there is an Australian standard
> requiring this: something which I doubt.
> Many countries split and combine emus regularly with passengers aboard (eg
> Netherlands); even paranoic USA and UK have trains combining and splitting
> with passengers aboard.
>
> --
> Regards
> Roderick Smith
> Rail News Victoria Editor
>
> Paul Hambleton <phambletonREMOVE@labyrinth.net.au> wrote in article
> > A Connex customer service person who rang me to follow up a complaint I
> made
> > about cancelled Alamein trains told me that it was happening because of
> > difficulties splitting trains at Flinders St. He said that if anything
> went
> > wrong which made it necessary for someone to climb down onto the tracks,
> the
> > split couldn't be done because of the lack of a flat surface to stand
on!
> It
> > was a health and safety issue. He said that work would be carried out at
> > Flinders St. this weekend to solve this problem.
>