Re: More CityRail trouble ....

["Ben Staples" <BenKim@bigpond.com>]

I can remember a few years ago, watching all the red rattlers being sold of
for scrap, I thought, wouldn't it be a great idea to make them into single
carraige units just like buses and get rid of the night riders. But then I
thought, the freight operators would be very miffed about not having sole
access from midnight to 5:00am.

Ben Staples
Graduate Engineer RSA Metro North
Michael Kurkowski wrote in message <356ECF36.48BC73E1@tig.com.au>...
>DJ NightShade wrote:
>>
>> >"Knives are out on the rough ride to Richmond"
>>
>> i'm a cheepscate}, and i saw a 8 car tangara returning from richmond(arr
>> 7:56pm at Riverstone). The front 4 cars had no lights on, so i assume
that
>> only the last 4 cars had passengers in them. this must have been for
>> security.
>
>Melbourne quite often do this after 8pm on most suburban trains that are
>not heavily populated. The first carriage is usually open whereas the
>remainder 2 (on a 3 car comeng) are locked up, switched off, etc,etc
>etc. I find quite often on the broady train however that the rest of the
>train is opened up by the time it reaches north melbourne, since with
>only one carriage things can sometimes get squishy. This has often made
>me wonder about the feasibility of running a sprinter railmotor on some
>of the less populated lines at night. What implications could follow of
>this? This has also made me think of the possible application of
>Sprinter railmotors in for example an hourly after midnight service, to
>replace nightrider buses.
>
>Mick.
>
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