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On Monday, a city-bound train on the East Hills line broke down at Nar­wee sta­tion. Con­veni­ently, this happened just a few sta­tions inbound from mine, about 5 minutes before I got to my sta­tion. As far as I can gather, the situ­ation was basic­ally this:

Nobody knew how long it would take to clear, and pas­sen­gers were just told to wait. It ended up delay­ing every inbound train on the line, and took over 3 hours to clear. Luck­ily, CityRail did man­age to organ­ise bus ser­vices to carry people to Kings­grove sta­tion which has a train turn­back facil­ity, mean­ing out­bound trains can ter­min­ate at Kings­grove, and turn around and go back to the city.

Had the Revesby turn­back facil­ity, and the 4-track Kingsgrove-Revesby pro­jects been com­pleted, the break­down would have meant far fewer delays. This is not going to hap­pen until at least 2010. Bet­ter get a move along Mr. Iemma et al., people are get­ting really pissed off.

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