Hi All,

Another picture for you, Harris train at Flinders Street

http://tdu.to/Harris 788M - Flinders St - 25-Feb-1987.jpg

I never saw the Harris trains run as a four car set but I can remember the
eight car set that ran around for a while.

Christine - Who has very bad memory's of Flinders St

On 12 April 2013 21:34, espee8800 espee8800@...> wrote:

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> Units were removed in the mornign anywhere from about 0900 till 1100 and

> added from about 1500 till 1630. So you don't have a huge window in the

> middle of the day where four car sets arrived and departed without units

> being shunted.

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> One of the other great moves at Flinders Street were the cases of ON

> trains following a previous departure - especially in platform 4 & 5 for

> westbound trains - with only about a car length between them.

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> On 12 April 2013 20:33, Brian Blunt bblunt@...> wrote:

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>> Back in my school days, my family would go to Melbourne every January to

>> vast relatives. They lived on the Frankston line so I got to do a lot of

>> train travel. Maybe it was just coincidence to the times I caught the

>> trains from Flinders St, but it seems like every time a 7 set car set

>> pulled up they would remove the front cars into Jolimont; if a four car set

>> arrived we would have to wait while they coupled another 3 onto it. Rarely

>> did a set leave in the same configuration it arrived in.

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> David in Avenel.au

> [The one thing that is certain is that nothing is certain. Of that I am

> certain.]

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