Re: GSR's New Brochure & Ghan to Melbourne

[mauried@commslab.gov.au (Maurie Daly)]

>I suppose by running during the day, they wouldn't have to contend with very
>much freight.

>--
>David Johnson
>CityRail Guard
>trainman@ozemail.com.au
>http://www.ozemail.com.au/~trainman/


Heaps actually , arriving in the evening means a heap of crosses with the 
outgoing Melb freights which leave in the mid afternoon , and to make it worse 
most of the crosses take place between Newport and Ararat, ie in the ASW part 
of the line , where crosses are the worst things you can have .
Finding a path into Melb in the early evening at the moment isnt really easy.
If it arrived much later , like after about 10-30 PM or earlier , before 
5-00PM life would be much easier.

Ideally you need to run the train where the crosses occur on the CTC part of 
the line , ie Pyreenees loop to Keswick.

cheers
MD