Re: [NSW] Airport line at Flying Junctions

[magilla gorrila <choochoo@spin.net.au>]

I think anyone with brains would have relised this and done it dufferntly but this is the Shittyrail.

Hubert Lam wrote:

> Quoted from "Australian Transport Discussion Board":
>
> copperluvva wrote:
>
> As I predicted years ago, this whole airport thing has totally stuffed up. The major problem with it
> is, the junction at Central. The engineers who get payed alot of money to design this railway
> stuffed up in one HUGE way. Where the airport line comes into the junction at Central, it is in a
> VERY limited position in case of problems like points failure, fatality etc. If they had directed
> the airport line into the flying junctions just 50 metres closer to Redfern, they could have
> utilised alot more of the junction than they did.
> By having the line join the junction 50 metres closer to Redfern, trains can come from the airport
> and arrive on either 16, 17, 20 or 21. Using 16 + 17 they can either go up the Nth Shore, or around
> the City Outer. Also, trains can depart Central form 18+19 platforms, which means they can come from
> the City Inner or the Nth Shore and go to the airport.
> Just 50 metres is the difference between totally stuffed and totally usable.
> The way it is now, trains CAN ONLY come from the airport and arrive on 20+21 ONLY, and can only
> depart Central from 22+23.
> That means if there is a fatality at Circular Quay for instance, on the outer line, NO TRAINS can go
> to the airport. Trains cannot be diverted. No room for flexibility. If a fatality occurs on the
> Inner line at Circular Quay, NO TRAINS can come from the Airport Line and proceed around the inner.
> Theyll soon start banking up behind each other and total chaos will occur.
> Anyhow, the airport line DOES NOT work, WILL NOT work, and I hope some highly paid engineers get a
> kick up the ass and get the sack.
> Until my next gripe, See yas later!!
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> could somebody verify this?