Re: Tangara A/C Failures

["Sandy Tanner's Household" <tanner@mpx.com.au>]

When I was travelling on the XPT the air con had failed and they were trying
to fix it for  a long time and then they announced that it was broken and
passengers were allowed to move to other carriages after Albury, Melbourne
bound


Jonathan Lau wrote in message <3674A178.B7C367A8@ozemail.com.au>...
>I've had the "pleasure" of traveling in two Tangara carriages which have
>had failed Air Conditioning units in the last several weeks. The
>Carriage numbers were D6177 & D6116. The temperature on Saturday was in
>the 30C's but inside it must of been at least 40C!
>
>When I spoke to the guard to let him know the A/C wasn't working he
>replied "Yep. I know." and that's all he had to say!! Why didn't he lock
>the carriage off and transfer passengers to other carriages?
>
>Are there any procedures in the event of A/C failures on Carriages?
>
>Jon Lau
>