Re: 20 mins to get from Parliament to Flinders St (the short way!)

["Johann Fan" <xyags@NOSPAM.geocities.com>]

Michael Walker wrote in message <897652897.794326@woody.hotkey.net.au>...
>>Do Met trains have trip mechanisms?  If they do, it is possible that the
>rear
>>trip mechanism was playing up.  If it were my train I would have cut the
>rear
>>Safety Apparatus out.
>>
>Yes they do, the other thing that causes a similar response is when the
>doors don't close properly (frequent occurrence). In this case, the driver
>gets out and walks down the length of the train to find which door isn't
>closed properly, closes it, then can take off. In theory, when SPOT was
>introduced, the doors were linked to the emergency brake so if a door was
>jammed open, the train couldn't leave the platform. As was shown on TV, the
>system is far from perfect with the doors able to be held open between
>platforms with no ill effect, but it must work at least some of the time as
>I've seen drivers do it and been in carriages where the doors have jammed
>open partly and the driver has cleared the obstruction and the train has
>gone.

Even better, I've been on a train where the driver closed the doors (but
doors didn't close), released them (thinking it was jammed), closed them
again (same thing) and left... The doors were wide open and I had to close
them by hand... afterwards, nothing happenned... the doors functioned ok...
cheers
Johann