Re: [Melb] New trains?

[Mark Bau <markbau@earthlink.net>]

in article PRKl6.43746$o85.241069@news-server.bigpond.net.au, Daniel Bowen
at dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au wrote on 2/24/01 2:07 AM:

> 
> "Mark Bau" <markbau@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> B6BCC26D.1B77%markbau@earthlink.net">news:B6BCC26D.1B77%markbau@earthlink.net...
>> 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
> --
> Daniel Bowen, Melbourne, Australia
> dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au
> http://www.danielbowen.com/
> 
> 
As has been pointed out, if you are talking about the bulkhead between the
pass. compartment and the driver/guard compartment true, they were not
delivered with doors. But if you are talking about the T cars and the non
cab end of M's, false, they were delivered with doors.

Mark