Re: Train derailment at Waverton?

[Jonathan Lau <jonlau@ozemail.com.au>]

Had a look this evening around 8:30pm. Rerailing operations were just getting
underway. 3 carriages have all bogies off the track, the last carriage has one
bogie off.

8170 arrived at around 8:50pm from Hornsby. It was going to shunt onto the siding
to drag the carriages back on to the track later tonight. Overheard the guys in
charge of the rescue operation that another loco is scheduled to arrive at
Lindfield at 2:00am  to assist in the recovery.

Jon Lau

Bill Bolton wrote:

> "Garry Hoddinett" <hoddos@netspace.net.au> wrote:
>
> >  4 carriages have apparently derailed on an empty car movement into the
> > siding behind Waverton Station.  Train Services have been suspended between
> > Gordon and North Sydney.
>
> Apparently the problem was that when 4 cars of the 8 car K set
> derailed, they managed to disrupt the overhead in the vicinity in some
> unsated manner.  It was the overhead damage that caused the shut down
> of the Shore train services.
>
> Shore services were restored about 2pm after the overhead was aligned
> and the "still on the rails" cars were extracted.  Service was due to
> be suspended at around 8pm to allow rerailing and extraction of the
> derailed cars.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill