Re: Boo Hiss to Hillside

[Railvic <railvic@primus.com.au>]

Vaughan Williams wrote:

> [snip]
>
> Well, some buses probably should be kept in reserve for just such a
> situation! It happens from time to time - a suicide on the tracks or
> whatever.

Ask bus companies in this regard!

> And why wasn't this guy, with a connecting train to catch and little
> else in the way of other options, put on the first available bus?
> Surely it doesn't take that long for a single bus to materialise?

As Sam has mentioned earlier that when train disruption happened during
peak, it is vertually impossible to get a bus or two within an hour as they
will be making their regular runs.  Let me assure you that station staff
would have done their best to obtain buses - often by ringing all the bus
companies in the area.

> Why couldn't some of the trains be run on the down line? That would
> create chaos for the down trains which would be disrupted but at least
> the passengers can be moved, and the inconvenience is shared around.

Vaughan, I assume you're talking about up trains running on the down line
during this disruption.  If this is so, then obviously you don't know how
railways institute "single line working with pilot person".  Besides, the
fire at Nunawading happened on a short stretch of grass land between up line
and private property back fence.  When you have fire trucks and emergency
workers on the line, you wouldn't want to run any train through that
section.

Railvic