Re: Spark breakdown in Melbourne

["Johann Fan" <yagsX@geocities.com>]

Iming Chan wrote in message <36DC967A.8D5E56D9@translib.com.au>...
>David McLoughlin wrote:
>
>>  Iming Chan wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >> I've just been to CWL and there are electrical crews, trucks and lots
and
>> >> lots of passengers.  A Martin & King 6-car is stabled at the dwn end
of pfm
>> >> 2 and there are no sparks in the sidings.
>> >>
>>
>> Hey, I am probably not the only person who doesn't have a clue what or
>> where CWL is.
>>
>> I can tell you are talking about Melbourne, a city I know well,
>> because of the reference to the Ventura buses.
>>
>> But CWL?  Do you mean Camberwell? Ventura buses don't run near there.
>> And there would be chaos if trains couldn't get past Camberwell.
>
>Sorry for the confusion, but I should have edited my friend's message
before
>forwarding to the newsgroups.
>
>CWL is Camberwell (the correct railway abbreviation for it is - CAM).
>
>As I am having my RDO today, so I don't really know the problem.  However,
>according to my colleague at Glenferrie (he couldn't stay long on the
phone, as
>he's very busy processing Concession Cards/Student Passes.  I have just
spent last
>two days doing it at Ringwood and I'm glad to have a RDO today!), it seems
there
>is some overhead power problem at Hawthorn sub-station.  As indicated in
the
>earlier posting, replacement (Ventura) buses have been organised to ferry
>customers between Camberwell and Burnley (?).

Correct... Lots and lots of angry people at Burnley having to wait for buses
and then finding they have to stand up while they wind its way to all
stations to Camberwell

 The extend of the problem is not
>clear, but I did see two up trains leaving Glenferrie - one on the up line,
while
>other on the centre line, around 0915 this morning.


At 1230 it was still no go and "no trains until further notice"