Re: Bi-directional running

[L & D <daisyw@ozemail.com.au>]

There's been Bi-directional running in Victoria for a very long time a few places
come to mind the centre line East Camberwell to Hawthorn superseeded by Box Hill to
Burnley, Riversdale to Camberwell on the up line and the Geelong Line between
Newport ?? and North Geelong there are others the city loops the Flinders street
Viaducts

Davo

David & Julie Donald wrote:

> There was a story floating around in the last few years that State Rail,
> probably through CityRail, was looking at a scheme to signal all its track for
> bi-directional working, with the first section to be done being the lower Blue
> Mountains (something like Penrith to Springwood or so).
> We know that the only sections that have been effective done are:
> (a) the Illawarra beyond Waterfall, but this was done as part of the track and
> signal upgrading on this line a few years ago, with all signalling done from
> Wollongong Complex; in addition, there seems to be a theory that this was only
> intended to be used in emergency situations, and, whilst I don't have definitive
> evidence, I get the impression that such is its normal use;
> (b) as part of a recent major resignalling in the Hornsby - Berowra - Cowan -
> Hawkesbury River area, Cowan Bank was signalled for bi-directional running;
> (c) again, as part of the latter stages of the Sydenham resignalling project,
> Hurstville - Mortdale - Oatley was done - from what I am hearing, this is used
> on a fairly regular basis;
> (d) we have the much older installation from Zig Zag Xover to Edgecombe Xover,
> through "the Ten Tunnels", east of Lithgow - again more an emergency situation;
> (e) and then there are a few smaller, individual installations, often done as
> part of resignalling projects, such as bi-directional on the Down Main only
> between Valley Heights and Springwood (now regularly used for allowing up
> passengers to run around / run through up freights, and the ability for the Up
> Main platform at Springwood to use for either direction (especially for the
> Springwood terminators).
>
> Anyone with any comments on this particular issue ??
> --
>
> Regards
>
> David Donald
> Springwood, NSW
>
> dsjmd@hermes.net.au