Electric Train Moves Through Flash Flood Waters Windsor Station Melbourne Floods 4FEB2011. 4/2/11

When platforms become pontoons! An electric passenger train moves through rising flash flood waters at Windsor Train Station, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 4th February 2011. Minutes later power fails and Metro rail services are forcefully suspended before the storm water rises to its peak near the top of the platform.

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[muzzavideos]

As a driver of suburban electric trains for 6 years previously & now 20 years, = 26 years total, I believe both drivers at Windsor & Sth Yarra did the right thing, they came across water, would not have been able to stop in time anyway & they got out of there before water rose higher . The trains are repairable, but had they stopped there or even partly in the water, they'd have been trapped by rising waters & both trains would have been scrapped, as happened at Windsor all those years ago.

[WisdomWithoutWaiting]

@muzzavideos

I agree totally! The flooding happened so fast that the driver took time to probably radio the conditions at Windsor back to base and this was the very first and last train to depart before the water reached near to the top of the platform and power was cut to the station and district. Its amazing that this technology is so safe to operate in such conditions without fear of electrocution.

[Tarrant1976]

HeHe@The people who just got off the train coming back and looking at the flooded tracks.

[BROADTRAIN1979]

Bath anyone?

[citytransportinfo]

hopefully this was nowhere near the tunnel portals for the underground loop in central Melbourne...

[jaquan123ism]

It's the water train

[MrTakeii]

what happen with Melbourne, i remember it never happen when i was there 10 year ago.

[emmocroad24]

they can manage to drive through this but never be on bloody time in normal weather

[SuperApparition]

@muzzavideos I stand corrected. Apologies.

[muzzavideos]

@SuperApparition Aloso, As a railwayman of  35 years, & 26 years total, as an electric train driver, I know that area & those trains, in this video which I have watched many times, the level of the water looks high, but is LESS than 5 inches in this video, don't reply without rereading what I wrote, look where the brake cylinders are, go down to the axle centres, then to the water level, it's not 5 inches, it's LESS than 5 inches, it's below the traction motors & electrical equipment.

[muzzavideos]

@SuperApparition OK, for a start, it wasn't a Hitachi, they don't operate Off Peak or on weekends, only for testing or training trains. But having said that, what you said, well that applies to ALL electric or diesel electric trains. No one said to drive into or through flooded waters, but these trains came across the flooded tracks, were unable to stop in time, they allowed their passengers to get off & on & got out of there quickly & reported the rising waters.

[SuperApparition]

@muzzavideos I believe you are incorrect. I used to engineer Hitachi trains and I know for a fact that Hitachi recommends drivers (and I'll quote the Hitachi manual) "not drive trains in conditions that present standing water." The reason is simple. Moving through standing water in the Hitachi electric train seems to lead to the conduction of high voltage electrical charges throughout the chassis. This situation places drivers and passengers in grave danger of electrocution.

[everybodylovessachin]

People drive cars on the flooded road why not train..nothing new.