Re: Aircondition Hitachi please!

[Gareth Lumsden <s9763278@minyos.its.rmit.edu.au>]

On 13 Dec 1998, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote:
> 
> The Hitachi's definitely were out in force on Friday evening. In the 15 minutes
> I spent sitting in Museum station, every train that went through platforms
> 3 & 4 were Hitachis...    sigh.
> 
> Surely they can rearrange things a little better?
> 

Not that I am coming to Dillside/Badside's defence, but being so hot on
Friday, I know that the evening peak services was an absoulute shambles!!

It was slighty hot, and as most of us know, Comeng's and Hot wheather do
not mix.  A Hitachi tangled it's pantograph at Toorak and was arcing onto
itself (a bit nasty), from around 3pm.  There were major signalling
failures in ther inner area, and I know the 18:00 down Warrnambool left
Spencer St over 1.5 hours late with N475(!!)

Trains were all out of position and therefore 6car trains were used on
a lot of night time services. I was at Flinders St for about 40 mins just
after 10pm, and saw 4 Hitachi's leave and 4 6car Comeng's leave.

Gareth