Re: Central West XPT

["William Ivery" <willivery@optusnet.com.au>]

"Dave Proctor" <david@spambait.proctor.net> wrote in message
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> "William Ivery" <willivery@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> > WT28 the Dubbo to Sydney went through Orange this afternoon at 1640 hrs.
> It
> > only had one power car again.
> > I suppose the reason that the Central Western XPT gets only one power
car
> > when there is a shortage is that the train can be turned on triangles at
> > both Orange and Dubbo.
>
> What's Orange got to do with it?
>
> Dave
>
>

If the XPT runs too late it is terminated at Orange and passengers are
transferred to Dubbo by bus. This is done to try and have the XPT's return
journey to Sydney on time.

William