The trains from down Eastern Victoria way come into and leave from Plat 13+14 at Spencer Street. Some of these trains become other trains going out west and north? What are these trains and where do the empty trains go after they leave Plat 14 at Spencer Street and go through North Melbourne empty?
Chris Gordon
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>Leslie Brown (pcc@ocean.com.au) wrote:
>>Whilst enormously enjoying the view from the railway vantage point
>>near North Melbourne station between 5:00pm and 6:00pm, amongst the 16
>>or so loco-hauled passenger trains that went past, both up and down,
>>one in particular grabbed my attention. It went past at about 5:44, an
>>N-class and 5 carriages (leading carriage was a BS compartment stock
>>in orange, the others in V/Line Pass) and all cariages were packed!
>I would guess either the 17.40 South Geelong. 4 mins from Spencer St
>sounds about right, and a Geelong train would be the most likely to have a
>BS.
>The other possibility would be the 17.42 Swan Hill, but 2 mins out of
>Spencer St it should only have bene at Franklin St Box. If an FN set went
>through at 17.46, that should have been the Northerner.
>Cheers
>David
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