Re: Connex train splitting

["Chris Downs" <cvdowns@ozemail.com.au>]

I seem to recall this happening with 2 Brisbane EMUs at Central one evening
about 15 years ago.

In NSW the 0731 weekday Newcastle - Sydney 4 car V-set arrives at Gosford at
0848 and amalgamates with the 0840 arrival from Sydney.  The 8 cars then leave
for Sydney at 0854.  Do passengers remain on the 4 cars from Newcastle during
the coupling?

Chris

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.
>