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Re: Y2K Fears to Stop Cityrail Trains
- Subject: Re: Y2K Fears to Stop Cityrail Trains
- From: alberta@zip.com.au (Albert Alcoceba)
- Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 03:27:13 GMT
- Newsgroups: aus.rail, misc.transport.rail.australia-nz
- Organization: Insert smart-ass comment about messy deks here
- References: <379cde6a.0@newshost.pcug.org.au> <379D4F58.EFE4FF8D@omni.com.au> <37a6a4c7.92907606@news.bigpond.com> <7nljga$lh5$1@metro.ucc.usyd.edu.au>
On 28 Jul 1999 00:39:38 GMT, matthew@mail.usyd.edu.au (Matthew Geier)
wrote:
>but if the electricity grid hickups, you have trains without power, in
>tunnels with minimal battery emergency lighting, and packed stations with
>minimal battery emergency lighting.
> If Wynyard or Town Hall plunged into darkness with a crowed platform of
>party goers, of whom a significatant portion are intoxicated on various
>substances, ensuring paniced riot could claim a significant number of lives.
>
> If the electricty grid does hickup, it is going to take more than 15 minutes
>to do a cold start. They havent actually done a cold start of the system
>before. Some people claim a cold start might not be even possible!.
Actually powerstation computers are not adjusted for daylight saving
due to the differences between states etc so if there is a powergrid
hicup it will happen at 0100 on New Year's Day.
Albert Alcoceba
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