RE: SN36 today

["Tom Pall" <tompall@bigpond.com>]

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SN36 forms a return working back to Moss Vale (Eveleigh crews, Moss Vale
crews go home pass) around 9:00-ish (On the South Danny, Help me out with
times and ultimate destination, please!!!), so a diversion to Eveleigh would
have been off the cards.


-----Original Message-----
From: David Johnson [mailto:trainman@ozemail.com.au]
Sent: Friday, 7 April 2000 11:05 PM
To: Aus loco discussion mailing list
Subject: Re: SN36 today

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Tom Pall wrote:

> Aus loco discussion mailing list
>
> An interesting trip was had by all and sundry on SN36 today as a result of
> the derailment in the Engine Dive today.  My initial thought last night
with
> the dodgy TV pictures that the ESR was affected, however this morning
there
> was nothing blocking the dive there as we passed the salubrious outskirts
of
> Eveleigh turntable.  There the fun began.  The Illawarra dive was
> red-flagged out of action and I assumed we would cross over to the
Suburban
> and thence into Sydney Terminal via the Wells St crossovers.  However, we
> Terminated at Redfern, Platform 9 on the Illawarra Local at 08:11 (ETA
> Sydney Terminal 08:12).  Confusion seemed to reign.  The driver exited to
> the platform to discuss matters with the inspector on the platform and
those
> of us in the know knew we weren't going any further dived out (it turns
out
> SN36 was officially terminated 2 minutes later).
>  At a guess a lack of co-ordination between Sydenham and Control let us
> cross over from the Up Illawarra Local to the Up Illawarra Main at
Sydenham
> as per usual instead of proceeding straight ahead as Control somehow
seemed
> to do for the Illawarra trains which continued on their merry way to
Sydney
> Terminal.
> Another wonderful day on SN36.
> Travel like a snail, go City Rail (with apologies to Railway Rasputin II)

It is possible that the set needed to go into Eveleigh, and they didn't want
to
have to terminate it in platform 4 Erskineville later on.  The only way
trains
from Sydenham could have got into Sydney Yard would have been to go up the
Illawarra Local from Sydenham, cross Local near Redfern, cross Suburban
(steam)
then into the yard.


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David Johnson
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