G’day Grumpy & All

There are reasons for the disaster of the 4D set,
It wasn’t wanted by the management, it was a politcal sop to say we tested it and it failed.

It was a one off , not supported by expertise or parts, so it spent a lot of time in siding for whatever reason they could find not to use it.
It served the Box Hill group of lines reasonably well considering that no changes were made to the existing infrastructure to accommodate it.
The reason your sibling hogger has trouble maintaining his timing is the latent crowding around the doorways due to the fact that the clowns have removed the fifth seat from all rows of central seats.
These unseated persons must now stand near the doors where there is more support ,and when crowded an Extrapolis does not attract more than a single row of standees in the centres,
simply because the is only the handgrip on the end of the seat to hang on to.
With the RS riding of these cars plus the rough track due to partial concrete resleepering, no one would contemplate standing without support.
You could stand up in a Doggie or a Tait and read the paper, in fact I recall people doing the X-word standing.

The job of lowering the Clifton Hill line, North Richmond tunnel floors , would probably only take a week or 2 over the holidays.
Additionally there is a lot of infrastructure changes happening which could have DD provision in them on other lines.

The latest edict from the Clown Princes of Spin is that we will now have 9 car trains on several lines, an idea probably imported by refugee managers from Pomme-golia.
Every platform must be lengthened, the length of every siding and position of every crossover considered. Indeed the whole signalling system must be redesigned to suit these longer trains.
More substations & overhead?
Cloud Cuckoo land stuff!!
End of Rant

Kevin
From: Graham Hocking
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 4:52 PM
To:TramsDownUnder@...
Subject: Re: [TramsDownUnder] NSW politician lunacy

On 6/12/2013 12:31 PM, Roderick Smith wrote:

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I have workshopped a double-deck design which fits the Brisbane loading
gauge, and hence could fit the so-called 'metro' in Sydney, and the
supposedly too-tight Richmond tunnels in Melbourne.

A plea fromthe wilderness. For Pity's sake don't bring another double deck disaster trains to Melbourne. Noe s enoiugh to learn by. My No 2 son is a train driver and says that it is virtually impossible to even attempt to drive trains to the timetabel now due to delays loading and unloading, Double deck trains just very smartly double tht delay at each and everyeverystop! JUST DON'T DO IT OR EVEN THINK ABOUT IT! YThe lesson has already been learnt.

Grumpy.

For over 100 years, Australia lamented the break of gauge problem. Nothing
has been learned, and today's politicians are just as bad as those of 1854.

Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor