Re: [NSW] Fatality at Minto

["Andrew Tailby" <atailby@optusnet.com.au>]

Form what i have herd they jumped but police are looking at tapes.
Andrew
"Michael Hendy" <little_fish_in_a@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> Any details on this one?
>
> From what queries I have made, It's undetermined if it was an accident
> or suicide. All I know is it apparently involved an Xploder...
>
> As hard as it may seem to say, I think State Rail did about the best
> they could, given the circumstances. We had buses a bit over 30 mins
> after it happened running Macarthur -> Ingleburn, with sardine specials
> from there.
>
> A couple of questions though...
>
> 1. The Interline depot is fairly close to Glenfield station. Why not run
> the rail bus services from Glenfield -> Campbelltown instead, using the
> up line for storage of sets to get passengers out on?
>
> 2. A C set (C 1 IIRC) was sitting at Campbelltown platform 2. Why not
> use it as a shuttle between Campbelltown/Macarthur? Would save having to
> take passengers to Macarthur by bus, freeing up more buses for
> city-bound passengers.
>
> 3. Why was a south-bound Endeavour terminated at Campbelltown, when it
> arrived *after* the scheduled time of a Goulburn service? (err? They
> parked it outside Campbelltown station from what I could see)
>
> Despite the above questions, I believe that we got about as good as
> could be expected, and better than Ivan would expect ;)
>
> Sorry to dwell on the circumstances, but I do believe that the effort
> made to get things moving by *some* means is worthy of some praise. Sure
> beats walking! ;)
>
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