Rumour, as usual is wrong, six cars were eventually moved by rail as they were, after the incident, to Cardiff.

Tony Bailey

> On 16 Jul 2018, at 4:26 pm, Brian bblunt@...> wrote:

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> Similarly, a recent incident in Sydney where an fixed consist 8 car Waratah train set smashed into buffers at speed at Richmond has, I believe, resulted in the whole set being written off. Compression damage was cited as the cause. I wonder if things might have been different if two 4-cars sets were involved, or less rigid coupling was used?

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> Brian.

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