Re: VLine loco rerostering

Leon Conway (lc@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au)
6 Oct 1997 09:51:28 +1000

dbromage@metz.une.edu.au (David Bromage) writes:
>Krel (krel4203@netconnect.com.au) wrote:
>>>
>>It would appear that the two A's work the down evening Seymour passes
>>returning on the up morning runs.

>Which two passes? There are three. I'll assume the 16.27 and 17.28.

Yep, and the 6.30 and 7.03 up. (e.g. A62 on the 7.03 this morning)

>>The two locos that run down on a Friday
>>night do absolutely nothing until returning to town on the Monday morning.
>>They are parked around the turntable.

>That doesn't sound like "world's best practice" having two rather large
>locomotives which only work ten 99km passenger trains per week.

After arriving in Melbourne in the mornings, they are pretty busy
servicing other country lines - I'm not sure exactly which, though.

Also, during the footy season, an A runs the 7.10 Saturday up even
though there are only a handful of passengers. This train is required
to service other country lines for the footy passengers. Now that
the footy is over, we're back to a sprinter on that service.

leon

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