Re: [Melb] New trains?

["Daniel Bowen" <dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au>]

"Mark Bau" <markbau@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> in article 5NJl6.43617$o85.240308@news-server.bigpond.net.au, Daniel Bowen
> at dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au wrote on 2/24/01 12:54 AM:
> > They used to have 6 at the ends, before they put the end doors in for
the
> > short-lived roving guards. What a waste of money that was!
> >
> You must be talking about Adelaide Comeng's because Melbourne's Comeng's
> were delivered with end doors.

Nope, they had no end doors until the early 90s. Virtually every school day
of 1988 I rode to school sitting in the back of the 7:40 from Murrumbeena,
in the seats now taken away due to the end doors being fitted.


Daniel
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