David Bennetts

"David Johnson" <usenet@trainman.id.au> wrote in message
news:487e8c41$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au...
> Matthew Geier wrote:
>
>
>> Got to be nearly 20 years since I complained about being stuck in a
>> carriage that suffered an electrical fire thus disabling the door control
>> circuits. (The emergency releases had already been disabled by that
>> time). I got an expert fob off by the Bankstown line managers office at
>> the time. (I was working in Bankstown at the time, I went to the office
>> in person).
>
> The doors between carriages have a dump valve that releases the air in
> case of electrical failure, so there should have been no reason that you
> could not have moved to another car.
>
That's all fine and well when the train is lightly loaded, but how do you
get a carload of passengers into the adjacent car in a jam packed peak hour
train? And quickly too in the event of a fire?

Regards

David Bennetts