Re: Connex train splitting

["Paul Hambleton" <P.HambletonREMOVE@bom.gov.au>]

Let's make it exciting, why don't they introduce slip carriages like in
England 100 years ago. They would have to bring back guards as brakemen.
Then people would be careful about what car they got into.
Paul Hambleton
"Andy B (Temporary)" <laurelb@dingoblue.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 paranoic USA and UK have trains combining and
splitting
> > with passengers aboard.
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> When I was young, about 9 years old, I remember quite often being on a
train
> while it was attached/split.
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> Seems only last 5 years it's common practice to remove passengers.
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> However, a Comeng was split the other week at Flinders St with passengers
on
> board.
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