Re: Melbourne Double deckers

[Question Everything <skadin@big\"SpAm\"pond.com>]

Ummm. sorry, that is not the way that it happened.

The main readon that the red rattlers were taken off the loop line, was
that the had failure for all the lights in one of the cars.  There were
3-4 deaths that were directly attributable to this, and the RRs were
taken off the loop lines.

I remeber this vividly, as the Clifton Hill line at one stage was a
mixture of RRs and Harris trains.  The harris' were taken off slowly
once the platform widening had completed so that Hitatchi's and Comengs
could travel on the line.

As the loop wasn't open then, they quickly replaced all the Hitatchi's
and Comengs with RRs once again, when the ruling about RRs in the loop
came into force.

Not that I really complain about it.  Red Rattlers were the best to run
on  for trains that were running express Clifton Hill to Princes Brigde
(Depending on where the footy was on the weekend.  Jolimand and/or
Victoria Park were stopped at as wel when games were there)

Andrew

Daniel Bowen wrote:
> 
> James Brook <ajmbrook@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
> 38201E94.BC5CEBAE@ozemail.com.au">news:38201E94.BC5CEBAE@ozemail.com.au...
> >     Can they only take 6 cars? That seems a bit short sighted of the
> > designers, especially as they were running 7 car tait trains in the 70's.
> > Anyway, I still think they should increase the frequency of trains. Perth
> > trains are only two cars but they are very frequent. I was in Perth in
> 1993
> > and during the peak period trains ran every 10 minutes on all lines.
> 
> Taits were not intended to run through the loop. It happened once or twice
> when the loop opened in the early 80s, but it was never meant to happen.
> 
> I remember riding a Harris through the loop, with the doors wide open and
> the lights not working. Very psychedelic!
> 
> Daniel
> 
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> Daniel Bowen, Melbourne, Australia
> dbowen at custard dot net dot au