Sydney's trains, dont you just love 'em! A bloody joke! Compare this to the 1930's, & its like two different worlds! Thanks to decades of NSW Governments listening to all the Rockeffeller oil robber barrons & the road lobby!
Nothing has changed much since then! We have a state government completely broke & needing the feds to bail 'em out! No investment in railways for decades! No wonder everyone drives! Would you catch this train? Or any train even today! Malaysia, Singapore & Japan pee all over us, as we stay stuick in 1955! Trains that stop mid- journey between stations because of constant signal failures! The state govt cant even provide the basics, forget the hard stuff!
My God! What a 3rd world rail system! This happened at the time of Neville Wran! He was all talk & show for the cameras & the public, while he jacked himself off under the parliament tables! He opened the line to Bondi! BIG FUCKEN WOOP! That was it! That had already been delayed for 40 years anyway! Nothing much! Dont worry about the Sydneysiders, theyre second class citizens!
That was Sydney 1985! When the station seats were these old, orange slats & not bolted to the platforms, there were poor signs or no signs, & the whole network was in 3rd World condition! After 50 years of sheer neglect thanks to our politicians, both Labor & Liberal! Robert Askin pocketed vast amounts of drug money, Neville Wran cut the Eastern Subs Line back to Bondi Junct. only, Barry Unsworth didnt do much, & today, 2009, we have them sleeping in state parliament! Literally nodding off!
That was Sydney's rail system in the '70s & '80s! Like Angola's! And it hasnt improved that much since then! The SRA actually patronised the public with ads like "when you ride the Sydney System, you're up there with the best!" Oh, please! I'd like to see what the worst is! This is how Granville happened! Savage cutbacks to investment, blatant neglect to the tracks & trains to keep the oil lobby happy! You shouldve seen Pippita station in 1985! Like Nagasaki!
In the late 70's I was sitting on Lidcombe station waiting for a citybound red rattler and a Penrith bound red rattler limped into the station amidst a huge pall of noxious smelling smoke .Immediatly upon coming to a screeching halt,the trains middle resistor banks exploded and caught fire.A piece of shrapnel almost hit me.
It was a scary event,and it happened about 7 metres from where i was sitting.
nup. The official report found that the banding on the rotor failed. When it did, the contents of the motor were chopped up and sucked through by the fan. Because the brush cover was missing, the shrapnel made its way out into the world.
We're talking 1985 here. I'm sure "Kaye Brown" has had a long history of media re0porting since that time, one that probably landfs her in Tassie at this time.
One would have to refer to John Horne's famed list of disposed cars as to where C3424 finally rested. Im pretty sure it was withdrawn well before '92 as I can't ever remember it receiving another overhaul.
It was back in traffic within a week with a changeover motor and minor repairs.
The C3424 inquiry was run by Geoff Moss (then SRA CEE, now president of HET). I have a copy here of the final report (Interesting reading), I'll post it some day soon on the web site.
Sydney's trains, dont you just love 'em! A bloody joke! Compare this to the 1930's, & its like two different worlds! Thanks to decades of NSW Governments listening to all the Rockeffeller oil robber barrons & the road lobby!
nico3212 2 years ago
Nothing has changed much since then! We have a state government completely broke & needing the feds to bail 'em out! No investment in railways for decades! No wonder everyone drives! Would you catch this train? Or any train even today! Malaysia, Singapore & Japan pee all over us, as we stay stuick in 1955! Trains that stop mid- journey between stations because of constant signal failures! The state govt cant even provide the basics, forget the hard stuff!
nico3212 2 years ago
My God! What a 3rd world rail system! This happened at the time of Neville Wran! He was all talk & show for the cameras & the public, while he jacked himself off under the parliament tables! He opened the line to Bondi! BIG FUCKEN WOOP! That was it! That had already been delayed for 40 years anyway! Nothing much! Dont worry about the Sydneysiders, theyre second class citizens!
gamimenaki 3 years ago
That was Sydney 1985! When the station seats were these old, orange slats & not bolted to the platforms, there were poor signs or no signs, & the whole network was in 3rd World condition! After 50 years of sheer neglect thanks to our politicians, both Labor & Liberal! Robert Askin pocketed vast amounts of drug money, Neville Wran cut the Eastern Subs Line back to Bondi Junct. only, Barry Unsworth didnt do much, & today, 2009, we have them sleeping in state parliament! Literally nodding off!
nico3212 3 years ago
That was Sydney's rail system in the '70s & '80s! Like Angola's! And it hasnt improved that much since then! The SRA actually patronised the public with ads like "when you ride the Sydney System, you're up there with the best!" Oh, please! I'd like to see what the worst is! This is how Granville happened! Savage cutbacks to investment, blatant neglect to the tracks & trains to keep the oil lobby happy! You shouldve seen Pippita station in 1985! Like Nagasaki!
nico3212 3 years ago
Trains with no doors? Cool!
clubpenguin777 3 years ago
no one died, i hope.....
JokaPlaya 3 years ago
In the late 70's I was sitting on Lidcombe station waiting for a citybound red rattler and a Penrith bound red rattler limped into the station amidst a huge pall of noxious smelling smoke .Immediatly upon coming to a screeching halt,the trains middle resistor banks exploded and caught fire.A piece of shrapnel almost hit me.
It was a scary event,and it happened about 7 metres from where i was sitting.
Thank god nobody got hurt!
I wonder if it was the same train?
cavador2001 3 years ago
the motor that blow up would have been silping on the rail and selfdestucted.!
ZZR934 3 years ago
nup. The official report found that the banding on the rotor failed. When it did, the contents of the motor were chopped up and sucked through by the fan. Because the brush cover was missing, the shrapnel made its way out into the world.
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zordmaker 3 years ago
Is that Kaye Browne from Southern Cross Nightly News Tasmania?
Brett632h 4 years ago
We're talking 1985 here. I'm sure "Kaye Brown" has had a long history of media re0porting since that time, one that probably landfs her in Tassie at this time.
zordmaker 4 years ago
But where is the list?
rdrogel 4 years ago
It was published in one of SETS' Under the Wires a number of years ago, not sure which one.
zordmaker 4 years ago
Is the carriage sold after the 1992 withdrawal of the famed cars?
rdrogel 4 years ago
One would have to refer to John Horne's famed list of disposed cars as to where C3424 finally rested. Im pretty sure it was withdrawn well before '92 as I can't ever remember it receiving another overhaul.
zordmaker 4 years ago
What happened to it? Was C3424 sold or cut up?
rdrogel 4 years ago
It was back in traffic within a week with a changeover motor and minor repairs.
The C3424 inquiry was run by Geoff Moss (then SRA CEE, now president of HET). I have a copy here of the final report (Interesting reading), I'll post it some day soon on the web site.
zordmaker 4 years ago