Re: Platform intercom systems (VIC)

["Sam Eades" <seades@bigpond.net.au>]

"John Elliott" <jae3806@bigpond.com> wrote in message
news:%T1I6.16656$482.85056@newsfeeds.bigpond.com...
> Was at Malvern station yesterday (three platforms and NO train arrival
> indicator boards).
> As we didnt know which platforms the next train to Melbourne would be on
we
> thought to use the Platform intercom (green button). There was speed
dialing
> and continually engaged tone. In desperation we used the RED button
> (emergency), still no contact with the outside world.
>
> Question: Where do these calls go to ?. some central location ?. or do
they
> go NOWHERE and its a trick to make use feel secure in the thought that  we
> can  contact somebody in the outside world while  at lonely,
> unmanned/unwomaned  stations.

The calls go to the controlling station. I'm not sure who controls Malvern.
If PRIDE (Passenger Real Time Information Dissemination Equipment) is down,
then the green button will not work, the red button may have been disrupted
by someone else using another red button.

Sam