Re: Sprinter

["Roderick Smith" <rodsmith@werple.net.au>]

The blurb on Sprinters stated that all critical functions would be
duplicated so that a failure would not disable the vehicle.  This was after
the experience with the DRCs.  The observation here indicates that the
objective was achieved.
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Regards
Roderick Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

grover <dgrove02@postoffice.csu.edu.au> wrote in article 
> Today, 6th of May the 3:55pm Sprinter service from Albury to Melbourne
> ran with only one of its two engines due to an electrical fault in
> engine number 1s inverter.
> Sprinter’s auto transmission did a lot of gear hunting trying to find
> right gear ratio for the high load it was under.  It also lost a lot of
> time due slow speed.
> I was rather surprised that it was allowed to run in this state of
> disrepair.