Re: Olympic Park workings

[Hubert Lam <hubert@imap4.com>]

During the Games, the Central to Olympic Park runs returned to Central
only, and Blacktown to Olympic Park runs returned to Blacktown.

You could use approximately the same number of 8-car T sets on both SOP
and BOP runs to provide 15 trains per hour max on SOP and 10-12 trains
per hour on BOP.

In article <3a0418f7@pink.one.net.au>,
  "Bradley Torr" <btorr@bigpond.SPAMTRAP.com> wrote:
> Looking at the "CityRail Games Network" maps (the big ones with the
silver
> background), one can see that there are two lines running into Olympic
> Park - the Central to OLP and the Blacktown to OLP - according to
this map,
> it appears as though the SOP and BOP trains cross paths when entering
and
> exiting the OLP loop.
>
> Yesterday I travelled on the OLP line for the first time ever - apart
from
> the terrible wheel screeches (can't we get the Harris rail greaser up
here
> sometime! :-) ), I was quite impressed. I thought that there would
have been
> a flyover at the southern end of the loop to accomodate the cross-
overs
> between the SOP and BOP runs, but I couldn't find any.
>
> So, how did the Central-Olympic Park-Central and Blacktown-Olympic
> Park-Blacktown runs go? I can only surmise one of two things: (1)
That the
> map told a lie, and that services from Central continued through
Platforms
> 3/4 up to Lidcombe and Blacktown; and Blacktown-Olympic Park services
> continued onto Central on Platforms 1/2; or (2) that precision
signalling
> and points switching was used to facilitate the conflicts between the
two
> lines as shown on the Games Network map.
>
> Which one is correct?
>
> Regards,
> Bradley.
>
>

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