Re: [Vic/SA] Very long Overland tonight

["Graeme Cleak" <gcleak@optusnet.com.au>]

Yeah,in later years the Up Aurora was held back at the previous signal, to
avoid most of the train sitting in the tunnel and inwardly digesting the
fumes through the power van intake to all the lucky punters.


Graeme Cleak
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
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