Re: "The Ghan"

["Paul Jones" <jonesclan@free.net.au>]

>From my experience, it was caused by the loading & unloading of cars at
alice springs. My train arrived 2 hrs late at alice springs, caused by
loading troubles the previous tuesday. it departed 4 hrs late, then 3 hrs
late from adelade, then 50 mins late from broken hill, and arrived 15 mins
late at sydney.


Paul Jones

David & Julie Donald wrote in message <390BBA15.EF444EC7@hermes.net.au>...
>This may seem like a rather lame question, but can anyone give a fairly
definite
>answer as to why WL4 ("The Ghan") seems to regularly run late.  It ran
through
>Springwood this morning about fifty minutes down.
>My understanding was that Train Order working was suppose to improve
running
>times, even though, as far as I am aware, the actual timetable hasn't
really
>been varied all that much - just heaps of "recovery time".
>
>--
>
>Regards
>
>David Donald
>Springwood, NSW
>
>dsjmd@hermes.net.au
>
>