Re: Did the 9:57 reach Lithgow?

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@sd5.mailbank.com>]

Bill McNiven wrote in message ...
>Garry Hoddinett wrote in message <8Ek54.2245$Dh3.54637@ozemail.com.au>...
>>15 minutes late INTO Blacktown but what a seeming stuff up - the train was
>>sent down the wrong track into the Richmond line platform!  CityRail
>>announced that the train will be delayed - what an understatement.
>
>
>But I thought one of the advantages claimed (in a post here some months
ago)
>for the re-arrangement was that a western train misrouted to the down
Branch
>(now apparently down Richmond) could recover its path by using the Up
Relief
>(now apparently "Local") to travel via the new platform 3. <g,r,d>

They can - if the driver pulls up short and informs the box that he has been
misrouted. Looks to me like this driver went all the way to the platform -
by then, it was too late.

Dave