Re: Connex train splitting

["Roderick Smith" <rodsmith@werple.net.au>]

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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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.