> G'day,
>
> as has occured in the past few years, a special train will operate to
> Warrnambool for Warrnambool Race Day traffic on Thurs May 7.
>
> Times from S.98/6039 are as below:
> Down pass 8291
> Spencer St (plat 3) 7:26
> Newport 7:41*
> Werribee 7:58*
> Lara 8:12*
> Geelong arr 8:25, cross 8220
> dep 8:55
> Winchelsea 9:23*
> Colac 9:47*
> Camperdown 10:14*
> Terang 10:28*
> Warrnambool arr 11:00
>
> Up pass 9292
> Warrnambool dep 18:30
> Terang 19:01*
> Camperdown arr 19:16 stop for departmental purposes
> dep 19:20
> Colac arr 19:47 cross 8237
> dep 20:00
> Winchelsea 20:26*
> Geelong arr 20:55
> dep 21:00 pre 8248
> Lara 21:11*
> Werribee 21:26*
> Newport 21:44*
> Spencer St (plat 2) arr 22:05
>
> Consist will be from East (Melbourne) end:
> Norman (round end trailing)-Avoca (Kitchen end leading)-ACZ (WCR)-Murray
> (Kitchen End Leading)-ACZ262 (V/Line pass Crimson)-Victoria (Kitchen End
> Trailing)-ACN-BRN-BN-Mooraboool-BRS (WCR)-BRS (WCR)-1xN (V/Line pass,
> HEP)+1xS (WCR)
>
> At Warrnambool, the S will be turned to lead on the up, the set will not
> be remarshalled (that's the plan at this stage anyway). The N is being
> used basically to take advantage of it's HEP capability, and alleviate
> the need to hire a powervan.
>
> All other WCR services will operate as per normal timetable, 8207 and
> 8246 will be built up to provide additional race-day connections.
> 8291 will be docked in platform 3 by 6:30 for loading and preparing.
> It'll be a colourful train, at the very least there will be some V/Line
> pass Crimson, V/Line Heritage Brown, WCR Blue, possibly V/Line Orange in
> there too (depends on which N set is used).
>
> Cheers,
> CH.
Great Craig but what about a special discount for readers of aus.rail?
cheers Peter