Re: Hitachi vs. Comeng

[Iming Chan <chani@translib.com.au>]

Michael Kurkowski wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have been wondering for a while now, why the driver/passenger
> communication doors have been taken out of the hitachi trains, and
> driver/passenger communication doors put into the comeng trains.
>
> I do understand that the hitachi's had them removed long before (late
> 70's?) and the comeng's had them fitted in the early 90's. Why didn't they
> refit them into the hitachi's?

Nowadays, for revenue services, we don't use 3-car Hitachi set, but we do use
3-car Comeng set.  Driver/passenger communication doors in Comeng will allow a
driver to change end without getting out his train.  When an Alamain -
Camberwell shuttle waits at Siding A (locates between up and centre lines) at
Camberwell, it is too dangerous for drivers to get out the train and change
end.

Cheers,

I.C.

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