RE: Re: Afternoon Tram News (Derailment) 30.7

As a technical writer in both the rail and electricity industries, I am
interested in the safety procedures aspect of this. Is there not a
requirement that the panto be lowered immediately there is a derailment, and
kept down until earth continuity is confirmed? Or was it so mangled that it
couldn't be lowered (in which case there should have been other procedures
to ensure electrical isolation)?

Cheers,

Brent Efford

-----Original Message-----
From: demondriver44 [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, 31 July 2002 1:17 a.m.
To: [email protected]
Subject: [TramsDownUnder] Re: Afternoon Tram News (Derailment) 30.7


-Andy,the car was 42,I didn't get close but it had obviously split
the points and may have been all wheels off,the panto resembled a
wrecked wire coathanger,looked like leading truck took St.Kilda Rd
and trailing truck took Domain Rd.I think it would have happened
about 1500ish and the whole Southside was up Shit Creek for a couple
of hours.Paul,Andrew Vigus took the cloth,funny,I remember him as a
profane bastard,I saw some mention of him in the paper some time
ago.Jeff it would have been the Bendigo Centenarian[a vexed question]
all those years ago,I'll post another shot or two.Regards all,Peter
Bruce.-- In TramsDownUnder@y..., "Andy B" <andy@s...> wrote:

* A Malvern tram on a down Rt 8 service derailed sometime in the

early

afternoon. The tram became insulated either after the derailment

or during

the rerailing process and a mechanic recieved a 600v shock. He was
unconcious when taken to hospital by ambulance. Delays to services

were

massive, as Workcover was required to attend the site. Many trams

were

stuck between Domain Rd & Flinders St. Some Rt 64 trams were ran

shuttles

between East Brighton & Domain Rd, others ran Special to

Glenhuntly. There

were trickles of trams on Rt 3 and 69; down Rt 3 trams for some

reason

waited at East Malvern until their correct departure time, only

infurating

frustrated passengers even more. Many drivers had been on the road

for up

to 6 hours, and were rapidly becoming annoyed. By about 17.15,

the delay

was clear and services moved again.


As I was not present, can anyone add further comments? I do not

know which

tram was involved.



--
Andy B - andyx@b... http://spatula-city.net/

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