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Summer Hill station, EMU's
Posted: 11 Feb 2008, 12:19
by Marc Russell
More pics
Re: Summer Hill station, EMU's
Posted: 11 Feb 2008, 12:22
by John Ashworth
That last one is a nice modern-looking train
Re: Summer Hill station, EMU's
Posted: 11 Feb 2008, 13:59
by Marc Russell
That is a Millennium train, introduced about 5yrs ago. The thing I don't like about it is the constant audio and visual displays. CityRail just recently introduced a Interurban set
Re: Summer Hill station, EMU's
Posted: 11 Feb 2008, 14:09
by John Ashworth
Ah yes, the audio-visual displays - see my comments at
http://www.friendsoftherail.com/phpBB2/ ... =32&t=1009 !
Re: Summer Hill station, EMU's
Posted: 11 Feb 2008, 15:19
by Marc Russell
It must have been interesting your first time around, coming from a country where they don't have even a p.a. system, to a place where you are constantly bombarded with information.
Reading your account of the UK brought back memories of my time there (2000-2002). Unfortunately it was a bad time for overground trains. "Leaves on the line" was a constant problem, but whilst I was there, there were many catastrophies, including the Potters Bar and the Hatfield rail crashes which resulted in the loss of many lives
Re: Summer Hill station, EMU's
Posted: 11 Feb 2008, 16:00
by John Ashworth
Marc, I'm originally from UK so I grew up with it. Mind you, in the days when I was travelling to school every day on the suburban electrics in the 1960s there wasn't a lot of information apart from the departures board in the ticket office and the platform loudspeaker announcements which were delivered in a special kind of English carefully designed to be totally unintelligible.