Re: [NSW] cityrail 10 & 12 car trains

["Hubert Lam" <hubert@imap4.com>]

No, prior to that 8 car V sets could already fit into Epping without having the first or last cars
overruning the platform!!! There's about 4 cars spare room when an 8 car T set pulls into the
station (you only need around 2 suburban cars length of room for 8 car V sets)


"Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> "Hubert Lam" <hubert@imap4.com> wrote in message
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> > Epping got its Platform 1 extended back in 1996. What's the explanation
> for that? To stop 9 car
> > XPT/7 car Xplorers there?
>
> 8 car V-sets (the greatest train in Australia, btw)?
>
> Dave
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> > "Chris Downs" <cvdowns@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> > > Suburban trains have never run in excess of 8 cars in passenger service
> that
> > > I'm aware of.
> > >
> > > The single deck interurbans certainly ran as 10 car trains to the Blue
> > > Mountains and the Central Coast/Newcastle.  These ceased with the
> > > introduction of the January '92 timetable?
> > >
> > > There was a time where certain peak Central Coast intercity double deck
> sets
> > > ran as 10 car trains but only as far as Gosford.  Two up trains
> amalgamated
> > > to 10 cars at Gosford or divided from 10 cars at Gosford on the down.
> This
> > > occurred in the late 80s early 90s?
> > >
> > > The platform works associated with these Central Coast intercity
> workings
> > > were:
> > > * temporary extensions to certain Sydney Terminal platforms (4 of them
> > > around platform         10?;
> > > * extension of Hornsby's #3 platform (and also #4?);
> > > * extension of both platforms at Woy Woy; &
> > > * extension of Gosford's #3 platform.
> > >
> > > Chris
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> > >
> > > <chris@enet21.com.au> wrote in message
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> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > A couple of years ago there was a mad rush by cityrail in extending
> > > > station platforms for I assume 10 & 12 car trains. I don't see any
> > > > trains of this length in service (8 is the maximum?), so is it because
> > > > of a shortage of rolling stock or unions ?
> > > >
> > > > Chris
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