>Somewhere a power/signalling cable was taken out (allegedly in the
>vicinity of the Moonee Ponds Creek near Nth Melb Jcn, but I can't
>confirm that yet), resulting in all sorts of problems, and delays of up
>to 2 hours to country trains. Not sure of the effect on Met trains,
>some at Spencer St reckoned Metrol had pretty much given the sparks all
>priority and left the country services languishing.
Some observations (for what they are worth)
I reckon the accident occured around 4.09 pm, as the 4.09 Werribee was
the train stuck on the Melbourne Central platform when I got there
to catch my train to North Melbourne.
I walked to North Melbourne and had a bit of a gander.
Rumour on the platform at ~5.30 was that a City Link operator/contractor
had severed a cable (doesn't news travel fast...)
There appeared to be a bottleneck down from Nth Melb, with
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