Tuesday night, 20 October 2009, at Schofields.
These photos show how our afternoon train services' on-time running can be shot to pieces.
The leading car of set G25 plus another set unidentified on run No 113K, happened to be heading along near Schofields as a white ant/termite/whatever took that last bite of a span pole which sent it crashing down, along with the overhead wiring, as the train passed by.
The leading car lost its pantograph in the process.
White ants in span poles are not pleasant and it is surprising that this span pole was allowed to remain place with the amount of infestation which it had.
Australia: Termites bring down the wire!
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Australia: Termites bring down the wire!
Posted for the photgrapher, Dennis Mitchell:
"To train or not to train, that is the question"
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Re: Australia: Termites bring down the wire!
Suprising that they use wooden poles. Is this common in Aus.
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Re: Australia: Termites bring down the wire!
The vast majority of street lights and power poles are of the timber variety