Re: Hitachi vs. Comeng

["MattyQ" <matticueQ@corplink.com.au>]

Iming Chan wrote in message <376E1EDC.67508D22@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.
>


If this is true then it would be unsafe to turn a 6 car back from siding A.
Is this the case?

Matt Smith
Brisbane, QLD

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