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Re: Train catches fire near Lake Macquarie



Is NT4 the one that arrives at kempsy at around 7pm?? My grandad was on
that!!

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Paul Jones

"Jack" <dave60@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
3a5d962d.13440454@news.dingoblue.net.au">news:3a5d962d.13440454@news.dingoblue.net.au...
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 22:02:10 +1100, "D Lindstrom"
> <D_Lindstrom@Bigpond.com> wrote:
>
> >Train catches fire near Lake Macquarie
> >A passenger train caught fire today near a station in rural New South
Wales,
> >the Rural Fire Service (RFS) said.
> >
> >The fire broke out under the engine of the CountryLink train just 500
metres
> >from Awaba station, near Lake Macquarie, a RFS spokesman said.
> >
> >Passengers in the first carriage were moved to the end of the train while
> >firefighters extinguished the blaze, he said.
> >
> >There were no injuries.
> >
> >A possible cause of the blaze was oil leaking onto the brakes, the
spokesman
> >said.
>
>
> There was a fire in the compressor room of 2017..... on NT4... NT1
> tonight and NT2 tomorrow are cancelled and will be run with busses
> instead
>
> Cheers
> Jack