Re: Melbourne SG Traffic and Network Service Plan

[G.Lambert@unsw.edu.au (Geoff Lambert)]

Neil Waller <nwaller@dehaa.sa.gov.au> wrote:

>Maurie Daly wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> After 1st May , there would be no reason at all for Viktrak to know or even
>> care what trains were running over its Network,after all its all the
>> responsibility of the lessees,so the concept of a Timetable for all of
>> Victoria will be a thing of the past.
>> Obviously each Company may wish to have a timetable , but in the case of
>> VF there isnt really any need to have a timetable for freight trains, you
>> simply run them all as required.
>> Effectively the Train Controllers become the timetable writers .
>> 
>> MD

>It is different on the interstate network.

>Each operator will have negotiated a path with ARTC or who-ever and it would be
>important to them that that path be honoured.   

In the U.K., where Railtrack is the equivalent (?) to Victrack,
timetables are composed by integrating the bids made by the TOCs for
paths.  A description can be found in October 1998 Modern Railways,
somewhat jargonised as is always the case with MR.  But, anyway,
Railtrack still produce printed WTTs just like the old days, with the
trains of all TOCs interleaved.  The number of "regions" have been
reduced somewhat, but a complete set of WTTs still stands about a
metre high!

Geoff Lambert