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Re: Olympic Loop

To: ausrail@railpage.org.au
Subject: Re: Olympic Loop
From: kingpin@magna.com.au (Derek Woodlands)
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 1998 23:54:40 GMT
Newsgroups: aus.rail
Organization: Magna Data - Internet Solutions Provider
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On 1 Jan 1998 03:28:32 GMT, "David Proctor" <daproc@bigfoot.com> took
time out from wrapping gaffer tape around gerbils and wrote:

> > Hmmmm, my way is faster!  ;-)
> 
> Is it faster? Certainly a LOT harder to control - the way it is planned to
> operate, the outer platforms will be for arrivals, and the ventre island
> platform for departures. The way you suggest, you will have a stack of
> people getting off the train and running straight into a mass of people
> wanting to get on!

Not at all.

They could have had a very wide centre island platform divided in the
middle, one side incoming, the other side outgoing.

I still maintain that they should have connected the Olympic loop with
the Main Northern Line somewhere near Concord West.

Catchya

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References:
- Re: Olympic Loop
  - From: David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>
- Re: Olympic Loop
  - From: kingpin@magna.com.au (Derek Woodlands)
- Re: Olympic Loop
  - From: "David Proctor" <daproc@bigfoot.com>

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