Re: [QLD] Park Road Station??

[Rob Kearey <robk@powerup.com.au>]

Graham Watkins wrote:

> > it's going to seperate the Cleveland line traffic from the
> > Beenleigh/Gold Coast stuff. As it is now, City-bound Cleveland trains
> > often have to wait for City-bound Beenleigh trains to clear the station,
> > and so on. Adding an extra island platform will eliminate this.

> How will it eliminate it? There are still only two tracks to Roma Street .

Well, it'll widen the bottleneck, at least.

> > Removing the diamond crossing on the Cleveland side of the station won't
> > hurt, wither.

> The diamond crossing won't be removed. As far as I am aware, the new layout
> will only be for city bound trains ex Beenleigh. The diamond is on the
> outbound line.

That makes sense.

> > I'm guessing that the Beenleigh trains will now follow the dual guage up
> > to South Brisbane.

> There is no platform on the dual gauge at Vulture Street.

There's probably no reason there couldn't be one, though.

Rob K