Re: Australia's most unreliable tramway dies yet again.
  Tony Galloway

If the phone rings once and drops off that means their phone queueing system is overloaded - it happens with Centrelink all the time.

When I was working in signal construction we put in a lot of duplicated SCADA links to avoid this sort of problem. The A and B lines followed different routes so if one was knocked out by physical damage the other wasn’t damaged along with it. Why GCLR didn’t install this is a question of design competence - building in redundancy is a no-brainer.

Tony G

> On 20 Mar 2017, at 5:56 pm, Richard Youltressteleg@... [TramsDownUnder] TramsDownUnder@...> wrote:

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> Once again this line was dead for at least 2 1/2 hours due to a communication failure, whatever that means.

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> I have tried phoning the depot several times but after ringing just once, the line goes silent. Maybe someone will be able to tell me what precisely the problem was, but for all the people with a plane to catch at the airport, this traffic stoppage would have been quite a problem.

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> When. I find out any details, I will advise you.

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> http://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/news/gold-coast/trams-stopped-across-the-gold-coast-after-communications-error/news-story/2174bae9370743cf03ad575b9a11323e http://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/news/gold-coast/trams-stopped-across-the-gold-coast-after-communications-error/news-story/2174bae9370743cf03ad575b9a11323e

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> Regards,

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