Re: Re: Re: [NSW] A few more questions...

["Fred Morley" <fredmore@iprimus.com.au>]

You should try taking a100 long freight train down the North Shore line and
keeping it at 40kph ,it is hairaising in the least.The last bit off the
bridge was a doozy particually as I had never driven over the line
before,had a pilot from Hornsby with me.
Fred Morley
"David Johnson" <trainman@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 7 May 2001 19:10:30 +1000, "Chris Downs"
> <cvdowns@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>
> >
> >David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> >> On Sun, 6 May 2001 16:01:47 +1000, "David Bennetts"
> >> <davibenn@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> >"Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
> >> >3af4dcf3$0$25489$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au">news:3af4dcf3$0$25489$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au...
> >> >>
> >> >> At 40kmh?
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >Might be the case now, but trains in red rattler days used to
regularly
> >> >descend from the bridge at full pelt, often twice that speed.  Quite a
> >> >dangerous practice given that it was all downhill to Wynyard.
> >>
> >> Very dangerous.  At that speed, they would have no hope of stopping at
> >> a red signal.
> >
> >I had a few runs in single decks sets into Wynyard at high speed (around
> >80km/h into the tunnel) but never in the wet.  Only got tripped once at a
G/R
> >(after chasing a few G/Y) but we pulled up well short of Wynyard station.
> >
> >Wouldn't the overlaps have been designed to cater for this situation (as
least
> >for most of the 80km/h speed)?  Currently the last signal prior to
entering
> >the tunnel is G/Y when a train is sitting at Wynyard so presumably a G/R
is
> >one of the next two signals providing 300-400m overlap?
>
> Ever tried stopping a K set on 1 in 30?
>
>
> David Johnson
> trainman@ozemail.com.au
> http://www.ozemail.com.au/~trainman/
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