Re: Sydney trains with yellow labels

Hairbear (prize5@s054.aone.net.au)
Tue, 10 Feb 1998 23:07:02 +1100

Last Sunday, between 08:00 and 12:00 was a test run to see how the Olympic
line would handle trains running at 3 minute headway, the trains you saw
were the empty sets used for the test.

Regards

Gary

Albert Alcoceba wrote in message <6bmigr$hcm$1@the-fly.zip.com.au>...
>On Sunday morning 7 February at around 8:05 am I noticed two suburban
>trains heading out on the Down Main pat Newtown (Sydney) with a large
>yellow label affixed to the front and rear Driver's cabs windows. One
>train had "808" on it's labels, the other had "810". I assume these
>were run numbers... The trains were running empty cars.
>
>In the message about $100/day Stress Paym*****, from
MATTHEW@LAW.USYD.EDU.AU to ALL!, MATTHEW@LAW.USYD.EDU.AU said:"
>
>What where these runs?
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Albert.
>
>
> * RM 1.31 * Albert! alberta@zip.com.au http://www.zip.com.au/~alberta/
>