Re: Sydney Interurban Trains

[not@accepting.mail (Harland Sanders)]

daproc@spambait.umpires.com (Dave Proctor) wrote in
<80gr25$341$2@news1.mpx.com.au>: 

>I think the first suggestion was right - the old sliding
>"Smoking/Non-smoking" sign - or the remnants of it. The panels are about
>the size of a house brick, and are still on some carriages. They are
>only on motor cars thoguh (DCM, DIM, DJM - not sure about DKM).
>

You think the remnants of the sliding sign resemble a metal plate the
size of a vertical brick?

The sliding signs were very wide, and their is little metal left.

Much more likely he meant the vertical metal plate covering the alarm,
which you can find uncovered versions of on the single deck sections. 

btw, Is is really a 'stop' button as several people have said.  I
remember getting an interurban up the shore one weekend when someone set
off the alarm.  I recall that it took a while for the driver to stop. 
Eventually the guard came wandering through the carriages looking
puzzled.  Turned out some guys were having a punch up in the next
carriage. 

When we arrived at Hornsby there were at least 6 police waiting for the
train.