Splitting trains (was Connex train splitting)

["Michael Wierzbinski" <wizzer1865@NOSPAMoptusnet.com.au>]

"Sam Eades" <seades@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
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> "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 paranoid USA and UK have trains combining and splitting
> > with passengers aboard.
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> Hmmmm. Australian standard my foot!!! On the Ballarat line, Sprinters are
> divided with passengers on board at Bacchus Marsh.
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> Sam
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Sam, do they split because the lead unit continues on to Ballarat or because one
unit is returning to Melbourne and the other is stabling, either way the one
that is empty would probably be the one that is splitting. Of course I'm not
sure one way or the other ,maybe someone could enlighten us all :-)