Re: Accident at Laverton
Michael Kurkowski (simcard@tig.com.au)
Tue, 28 Jul 1998 04:17:50 +1000
At 09:49 PM 7/27/98 -0700, you wrote:
>> There has been an accident at Laverton where an electric train has run
>> into the back of a goods train at about 2015 Monday evening. Further
>> details are sketchy, but I did hear that the overhead was down and
>> that all trains to and from Geelong had been cancelled.
>
>Basis of the above is correct, I've just been called by our Ops Manager,
>a spark rear-ended a goods at Aircraft, both BG lines are blocked. 8246
>was terminated at Werribee, and has returned to GEX empty cars, so
>tomorrow morning I may be running busses MSS-GEX, with 8207 being a
>train beyond. If the line's cleared, the cars will come to Melbourne
>empty. 8237 got to WMB 60 late, ran via Brooklyn.
>
Having just come back from there, the track appears it will be clear for
today, with the 6 car train being split at approx 0300 and the rear 3 cars
being driven away toward Werribee. The M car involved was a comeng car,
475M which had appeared to have a lot of front end damage but was still
driveable. The goods train had been moved clear approximately 25 minutes
before i arrived according to a member of the emergency crew, which would
have meant about 0235. Also noted an NR goods on the SG, a spark which was
at Laverton for quite a while, and a mixed (oil, grain, coal, paper) behind
G526 (is this correct???) and A79. Both were cleared to pass at approx
0310-0320.
Hope this helps,
Michael (a beginner gunzel :))