Re: [Melb] New trains?

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"Daniel Bowen" <dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au> wrote in message
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> "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.
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> 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.

they had end doors in the trailers, and at the non-cab end of the motors.
You are referring to the cab ends of the motors.

Dave