Re: Saturday in Sydney

["Paul Jones" <dj_argon@geocities.com>]

hmm, funny that. when i traveled to riverstone on sunday night there was no
sign of dammage. and i doubt that the line would get fixed soooo quick,
after all, it's only the richmond line!


Paul Jones

David & Julie Donald wrote in message <363B603F.7C81DE1D@hermes.net.au>...
>A few incidents from the Sydney area on Saturday, 31st October
("Halloween").
>
>1.  I suspect that it was going to be a rather "long night" for the
passengers
>on NT1 to Brisbane last night.  My timetable indicates that departure from
>Sydney Terminal is at 1624, but information received indicates that the
train
>was still in the Strathfield area three hours later.
>
>On a more general note, from various pieces of information, I believe that
there
>was quite significant suggestion in the Inner West due to the trackwork in
>progress, especially for traffic heading north.
>
>2.  Here's one that perhaps David Johnson can answer.  I heard a reference
late
>last night to NS86, which was apparently to have a loco change at
Flemington
>Markets, and head out as SL87.  What was this ??
>
>3.  It must have been "silly season" in the west last night, with the
following
>incidents:
>(a) there were reports of a car parked inside the fence on the up side
between
>Doonside and Rooty Hill.  I gather that this did not cause too many
problems.
>(b) however, of a more serious nature was an incident between Marayong and
>Quaker's Hill, when an apparently "totally pissed" driver came out of side
>street near the line, crashed through the protective fence, and ended up on
the
>line.  Indications were that the track had been moved some ten centimetres.
>Trains on the Riverstone / Richmond line were immediately cancelled, with a
>couple of trains trapped on the Richmond side of the incident.  I
understand
>that there were some initial problems in obtaining buses, but that they
were
>eventually obtained.
>(c) of a less serious, but equally disturbing, nature, and perhaps a "sign
of
>the times", I understand that there was an incident at Wentworthville
station,
>wherein either the station was broken into or the ticket machine etc
vandalized
>and broken into - I have to say that I am not quite sure what.
>(d) I gather that there were other issues around Blacktown involving
concern for
>the activities of drunken people and their interaction with traffic and the
>running lines.'
>
>
>A minor point, and this is probably due to the trackwork.  6AB6, Sunday, is
>running about an hour earlier out of Chullora.
>
>--
>
>Regards
>
>David Donald
>Springwood, NSW
>
>dsjmd@hermes.net.au
>