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Re: All trains in/out of the city stopped
Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 6:17 pm
by AcesAP
Channel 7 News reports that the man was apprehended by TRG guys in a cherry picker, and has been taken to RPH
Re: All trains in/out of the city stopped
Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 6:21 pm
by gkoutlis
Managed to see the Bronto name so am assuming yes Perth CLP was there along with Perth 1st and DM Perth.
G
Re: All trains in/out of the city stopped
Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 9:19 am
by spartacus
Trains on the mandurah line are stopped this morning - 915.
Re: All trains in/out of the city stopped
Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 9:02 pm
by written_ficton
Rail Replacement?
Re: All trains in/out of the city stopped
Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 9:06 pm
by spartacus
No, I mean literally stopped, all lined up one after another at the red signals. They were back when I drove back, at about 12.30.
Re: All trains in/out of the city stopped
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 11:26 am
by written_ficton
Could be any reasons
Re: All trains in/out of the city stopped
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 7:40 am
by Fastlane
Don't rely on getting on a train today... 40 drivers have called in sick.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/ne ... l-in-sick/
Re: All trains in/out of the city stopped
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 7:58 am
by written_ficton
Not quite true with that statement.
If your going to the city on the Armadale / Midland / Fremantle Lines, no delays are expected.
However, Mandurah / Joondalup lines your looking at a service every 1/2hr with a 6-car train. Its going to be almightly squished!
Re: All trains in/out of the city stopped
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 8:08 am
by Fastlane
My bad?
Wonder why the hell they can't pull some of the drivers from the Armadale/Midland/Freo line.. !
Re: All trains in/out of the city stopped
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 8:21 am
by written_ficton
Sorry Fastlane, that was a bit harsh of me!
Probably find out that there may be different awards on the different lines and not all drivers are allowed to driver the B - Sets as they are not trained.
Re: All trains in/out of the city stopped
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 8:26 am
by gkoutlis
Yep.....
I was one of thousands who were affected this morning.
Now I get a true understanding of what Sardines jam packed into a tin, feel like........
Complaint sent to Transperth...
They could have at least given commuters a free ride for having to wait over an hour for a train. (Mandurah line).
G
Re: All trains in/out of the city stopped
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 5:01 pm
by Infernal
written_ficton wrote:Sorry Fastlane, that was a bit harsh of me!
Probably find out that there may be different awards on the different lines and not all drivers are allowed to driver the B - Sets as they are not trained.
When I spoke to one of the drivers at Mandurah they said they were all trained on both sets
The 3 lines not affected the drivers are biased out of Claisbrook, the other 2 lines are from Nowergup or Mandurah
Having 40 drivers off sick is going to cause a big dent in staffing no matter how you look at it, either way you wont be able to get the service to full with that amount off.
Re: All trains in/out of the city stopped
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 12:34 am
by Tyranus
not to mention the planned extra services for City to Surf on Sunday...
Re: All trains in/out of the city stopped
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 9:55 pm
by written_ficton
AO11912, not all drivers are cross qualified. Unfortunately, the discussion with Fastlane was made about why they didnt borrow drivers from Claisebrook.