Re: M>Train Refurbs

["DJ" <someone@optus.com>]

Who has pictures of the SA comeng trains



"Les Chandra" <les_chandra@asparagus.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Litter bins were fitted to Adelaide's jumbos (supertrains) when they were
> introduced in ca 1980. They were retrofitted to the old red-hens. When the
> newer Comeng trains came in a decade later they didn't have bins. I think
> they have since been fitted (can someone confirm?)
>
> I don't recall ever seeing or hearing of problems with them.
>
> "Jeremy Lunn" <spammers-will-die@austux.net> wrote in message
> slrn9dtl2k.ss.spammers-will-die@amalthea.dark.net">news:slrn9dtl2k.ss.spammers-will-die@amalthea.dark.net...
> > In article <3ade6530_2@news01.one.net.au>, Rail Roamer wrote:
> > > It's alot harder to detect and fight a fire in a a small enclosed unit
> than
> > > what it is on a open floor. Also you get the real bright sparks that
put
> lit
> > > ciggie butts in there and can smoulder for an hour or two before going
> up in
> > > flames, yet the paper that is spread around and in the open is alot
> easier
> > > to see on fire or smouldering.
> >
> > If they were designed properly then lack of oxygen supplied to the bin
> > should prevent fires.  I recall V/Line trains having bins but they may
> > be better staffed.  I haven't seen many people smoke on a train either,
> > even those who look like they don't care don't tend to smoke on the
train.
> >
> > Perhaps paper recycling bins at stations would be better though (most
> > people would probably use them).
> >
> > --
> > Jeremy Lunn
> > ICQ: 19255837
> > http://jeremy.austux.net/
>
>