Re: [VIC] Under the platform at North Richmond!

["Exnarc" <gwrly@netspace.net.au>]

1359 Up HBE and an Up Epping delayed at Clifton Hill for about 20 minutes
also, as Metrol would not allow any trains passed the location until
Emergency Services were clear of the track

Bob.

Sam Eades <eadess@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> G'day!
>
> This afternoon, I caught the 1417 dn EPP from SSS to RES. When we
> arrived at NRM, 2 persons were seen lying on the ground underneath the
> platform!! (NRM is an elevated platform on steel pylons). The driver
> went to investegate and discovered 2 teenage people (1 male, 1 female)
> the female off her face and the male had committed OD (Heroin). The
> driver refused to move his train (quite rightly) until the people were
> removed. The train was delayed 20 mins at NRM and delayed 3 EPP and 3
> HBE line trains behind it.
>
> I know this may sound unfeeling, selfish and callous, but if they're
> going to do it, can't they do it somewhere away from where my customers,
> collegues and I have to be? I say that the sooner we get the safe
> injecting rooms the better (but as many people point out, I wouldn't
> want one next door!)
>
> Sam Eades
>