Re: Tangarra Destination Equipment

[David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>]

Peter Jones wrote:

> Hi,
>      At Olympic Park the other day I boarded ?T26? and its desto was stuck
> on CAMBELLTOWN and had all chinese or something kind of writing around it!
> Knoe my Question is why do the destos have 4 Boxes then Two lines of Writing
> when They never use them. They should cause they love the Suburban other
> than tangarra set destos.

The four boxes were originally intended to be for the run number.  This was
abandoned from the outset, possibly because of the myriad of four letter words
that could be entered as run numbers (like "WORK").


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David Johnson
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