Re: CityRail problems 7/8/98

["Paul Jones" <dj_argon@geocities.com>]

hehe. True that!!

G.Fry wrote in message <35CBC8D1.14F84637@sydpcug.org.au>...
>Thank you David for explaining what the problem was. I was coming home
>from the city at 10:30pm and the station staff at Circular Quay didn't
>really know whether the Illawarra line was operating but suggested
>catching the East Hills train to Sydenham and changing. We took her
>advice and to our pleasent surprise at Sydenham we changed to an
>Illawarra line train almost immediately.
>Of interest with this episode is that on a day with very heavy rainfall
>(>100mm)  and strong winds which resulted in local flooding and power
>lines down alround the state, a train fails due to it pulling down the
>overhead in the underground in an area not likely to be directly
>affected by the weather. Surely a case of Murphy's Law!
>
>Graham Fry
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>David Johnson wrote:
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>> Wow! What a night!  The 16:08 Bondi Junction to Thirroul service
>> brought down
>> the overhead wires near Kings Cross.  It, and 3 other trains were
>> still there
>> when I left Martin Place at 00:17.
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>> Initially, all Illawarra trains were running via the City Outer, but
>> after
>> around 21:30 they were running to Martin Place.
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>> This caused all sorts of havoc on other lines as train crews were
>> stranded all
>> over the place.  There were gaps of up to an hour between trains to
>> the
>> Illawarra line.
>>
>> --
>> David Johnson
>> CityRail Guard
>> trainman@ozemail.com.au
>> http://www.ozemail.com.au/~trainman/
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