Re: Sydney CityRail suburban service chaos - AM services Thursday 17 June 1999

[Railway Rasputin <bob@fastlink.com.au>]

Graham Fry wrote:

>
> Coming into the city from Hurstville on a Waterfall service we crossed
> to the up main as usual at Wolli Ck then after a slow crawl crossed back
> to the up suburban between Tempe and Sydenham. Slowly made our way to
> Sydenham and then on the crossovers on the city of Sydenham were crossed
> back to the usual track.
> What I don't understand is which points could have failed to cause the
> train to be diverted off a line onto to another and then 2km down the
> line to be diverted back to the original line.
> Any ideas?
>
> Graham Fry

I don't know I was sitting in the driver cab with half a dozen driver and inspectors
and we couldn't work it out.

rgds