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Re: R 711

In article <36c52f4e.2808589@news.enternet.com.au>,
steam4me@enternet.com.au wrote:

> 
> Must be different in Aus then; as I said, my only experience with a
> "dump the air" situation resulted in me (along with all the standees)
> being in the middle of a tangled mess of limbs on the floor of the
> foremost part of the carriage.
> 
Can't say I've been in a 'dump the air' situation, but in Tas last year
when the Dubs broke away from the M class on the EBR line, the pull up was
quite gradual.  This is, however, the nature of vacuum brakes.

-- 
Stuart Thyer
Photographer-Department of Anatomy
University of Melbourne
One time winner of the 'Imaginary chocolate frog of discretion'