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Re: Interstate Trains at North Terrace, maybe?
- Subject: Re: Interstate Trains at North Terrace, maybe?
- From: "David \"The Doctor\" Proctor" <daproc@spamsux.bigfoot.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 20:52:38 +1000
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- Organization: OzEmail Ltd.
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- Xref: news.mel.aone.net.au aus.rail:34298
Maurie Daly wrote in message ...
>In article <Pine.OSF.4.03.9810211522120.28880-100000@ties.itu.ch> arthur
marsh <marsh@ties.itu.int> writes:
>The only potential problem with using Adelaide terrace for SG trains is
that
>its a dead end statiion unlike Keswick .
>For terminating trains , this doesnt matter, but if GSR are going to run
thru
>trains like the Ghan from AS to Melb , then it means the train gets
reversed
>at Adelaide.
>No real problem in this , except there seems to be an aversion in running
>passenger trains backwards,ie all the seats facing the wrong way around .
>I guess you could run thru the train and turn all the seats around or
reverse
>the train around the triangle ,(you would have to build one near Gaol Loop
>somewhere.)
But that problem exists now, and has existed, since the Indian Pacific was
diverted to run through Adelaide!
David "The Doctor" Proctor
daproc@spamsux.bigfoot.com