Re: Sydney Light Rail Outage: Overhead Wiring Issues Cause Commuter Chaos In Sydney
  Tony Galloway

Unlike Yarra trams Transdev has control of a large bus fleet, so can use these opportunities to grift a few more dollars out of TfNSW by “hiring” their own buses to cover the outage.

Tony

> On 12 Mar 2023, at 12:06, Malcolm Rowe mal.rowe@...> wrote:

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> The GTCOTS takes continuity of service seriously, so there is always a tower wagon in the CBD during peak hours.

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> Mal Rowe - temporarily away from a city that sees replacing light rail with buses as a last resort

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> On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 10:13 AM Malcolm Rowe mal.rowe@... mailto:mal.rowe@gmail.com> wrote:

> Five and a half hours to fix a broken span wire!

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> Mal Rowe - shaking head in disbelief.

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> On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 10:03 AM Matthew Geier matthew@... mailto:matthew@sleeper.apana.org.au> wrote:

> I've been sent a photo of the failed bit of overhead - not at liberty to repost so don't ask.

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> Looks like a piece of parafil or it's attachment gave way resulting in a dropper arm hanging below the contact wire in the Chinatown area.

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> Had the failure not been noticed it could have easily ripped a pantograph off making the incident much more complex.

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> After they started turning back cars at Central Chalmers, apparently one of the points at Central decided to die adding to their challenges.

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> Points failures are happening so often there is a 'points reliability enhancement' project underway. Seems the mechanisms are too easily clogged up with dirt and sand.

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> The Panania incident ripped off a pantograph AND a hatch cover. Not clear what order it happened, but they managed to pull down the catenary as well as the contact wire.

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> As passengers couldn't be trusted not to 'self evacuate' into a space that had potentially live wires in reach, the passengers had to wait over an hour in a train with no ventilation, non openable windows and closed doors, till overhead crews could 'safe isolate' the accident site.

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> It took them most of Saturday to repair the damage.

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> On 12/3/23 10:09, Greg Sutherland wrote:

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>> https://vervetimes.com/sydney-light-rail-outage-overhead-wiring-issues-cause-commuter-chaos-in-sydney/ https://vervetimes.com/sydney-light-rail-outage-overhead-wiring-issues-cause-commuter-chaos-in-sydney/

>> L2/L3 CBD and South East Lines between Central and Circular Quay closed for 5 hours 30!

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