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Re: WL1 (IP) at Penrith Down Siding?
- Subject: Re: WL1 (IP) at Penrith Down Siding?
- From: "Chris Downs" <cvdowns@ozemail.com.au>
- Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 18:53:46 +1000
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- Newsgroups: aus.rail
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David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
news:3AED7F0B.6B26D461@ozemail.com.au...
> Chris Downs wrote:
>
> > I now have a little more on this incident from a most reliable source.
> >
> > Apparently WL1's load was 811.7 tonnes with a single NR. However WL1's
> > running times are set for 800 tonnes so some obnoxious train controller
> > decided that since it was overload for its running times (albeit full load
for
> > an NR on the mountains is 900 tonnes) it couldn't run till after the peak
> > and/or till a second loco was obtained.
>
> That's almost as funny as the 4200 tonne coal train that arrived at
Hurstville
> with four 86s last week.
So what was the fix at Hurstville Dave?
Chris