Re: Broken Hill/Griffirh pass. cancelled.

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"David Bromage" <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote in message
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> Dave Proctor (daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au) won a Nobel Prize for
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> > "David Bromage" <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote in message
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>
> > > Probably not. The 4-car set has to spend alternate mornings at
Eveleigh
> > > for servicing. The way it can be done has been described here ebfore.
> > >
> > > 1) Replace the Grafton XPT with a 4-car Explorer.
> > > 2) Replace the Armidale Xplorer with a 2+5 XPT.
> > > 3) Run a 2-car Xplorer between Moree and Werris Creek, connecting with
the
> > >    XPT.
> > > 4) Put the other 2-car Xplorer on the Griffith run 3 days per week,
> > >    combined with the 11.43 Canberra as car as Goulburn. You'd get 3
> > >    services per week.
>
> > 2+5 XPT to Armidale? It would have to be a dedicated set. Bets option
would
> > be to make it the 2+6 that comes off ST2 in the morning (that currently
goes
> > to Grafton), having it form ST1 when it gets back the following
afternoon.
>
> It's pointless taking an XAM to Armidale. It's dead weight to Grafton, and
> would be even deader to Armidale.

This would involve shunting it off every morning, and shunting it off every
afternoon. Although it would free up one XAM.

> The othe rproblem is what happens if ST2 is late. Think how often NT25 has
> been late because of this. If you have dedicated 2+5 sets for Armidale,
> the next duty for ST2 would become NT1. NT4 can form ST1.

The faster running of an XPT over an Xplorer means that this service could
depart Sydney later. NT23 used to depart from Sydney at 1135, due mainly to
the fact that it worked to Glen Innes and Tenterfield (so the arrival times
had to be acceptable) and also the fact that a DEB set connected at Werris
Creek (being slower then an Xplorer so arrival in Moree had to be
acceptable).

It shoudl be possible to have a departure time for NT23 of around the midday
mark, thus allowing for late running.

> Same number of sets, but more time between workings.

You would still need six sets to work NT1/2/3/4 and ST1/2/3/4, 1 set to work
WT27/28, which would leave you with one set only to work NT23/24 - where
will the other set come from?

Dave