Re: [Vic/SA] Very long Overland tonight

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"B." <gunzel412@dingoblue.gunzel.net.au> wrote in message
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> Dave Proctor <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> >> The Southern Aurora back a week later was right on time
> >> though.
>
> > Yeah, but the Aurora stood out near Footscray for about half
> > an hour to wait for the Daylight. I asked the conductor once
> > what we were waiting for, and he said that it was for the
> > Daylight to clear Spencer St - why they could not have put us
> > away somewhere closer to Dynon is beyond me.
>
> Where do you mean by Footscray?  From Spencer St, there is a
> single line section as far as Sth Dynon Jct/Sims St Jct, then
> double line through the Bunbury St tunnel & up the hill as far as
> West Footscray Jct.  So if your Up Aurora was to be checked, it
> would be held at Sims St Jct, maybe in the tunnel.  The other end
> of that fairly short tunnel is below Footscray.

I caught the Aurora about 10 times from SYD to MEL - we were held, on each
and every occasion (apart from SAT night departures) around Middle
Footscray.

Dave