Re: Griffith/B.H. trains

[Scott Martin <semartin@idx.com.au>]

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Aus.loco'ers,

      I can't help but step in to this thread, as someone who on a daily 
basis observes the coming and goings of countrylink services to the XPT 
centre in Sydney, a 40 minute allowance for cleaning and turnaround is 
highly optimistic, even if the Armidale/Moree train did arrive on time 
(which it often does not). 
   The Xplorer set, which goes to the XPT centre to pump the liquid/solid 
waste from its tanks and fuel up has to be pathed through peak hour 
traffic from Central to Eveleigh, then onto the down Illawarra, then 
cross to the down Bankstown line tracks at Sydenham, then do its business 
and return. Not do-able in 40 minutes. 
  If there were spare (or extra cars) available, it would perhaps be 
better to run one of the three Canberra Xplorer services as a 5 or 6 car 
consist, dividing at Goulburn into a Griffith and Canberra portion. As 
for Broken Hill, more cars would be needed to run a connecting service 
off the Central West XPT at Orange perhaps.
   Enough of crystal ball gazing.... Back to the real locos,

I hear - I forget, 
I see  - I remember,
I do   - I understand


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