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Something of passing interest happened yesterday when I was heading home on the train. We’d just crossed the Harbour Bridge and entered the tunnel and the train pulled to a stop in the middle of nowhere. Nothing unusual there – that was standard procedure for CityRail in peak hour. Then the airconditioning turned off, the engine powered off, and finally half the carriage lights went off. And there was silence. I mean, complete and utter silence. A packed out train carriag e with a peak hour crowd and no more standing room, and you couldn’t hear a single noise. There was someone turning the page in a novel in the semi-darkness, but that was about it.