Re: Monday (13/12/99) Night's Melb-Syd XPT

[Graham Duffin <duffin@dyson.brisnet.org.au>]

Re Dave's comment below about NT1 ex Sydney 13/12/99:
NT1 which left Sydney 13/12/99 was terminted at Casino on the Tuesday
morning and passengers bussed to Brisbane arriving around 8.50 am.  NT2
ex Brisbane on Tuesday 14/12/99 started from Casino with passengers
bussed from Brisbane to Casino.  This was probably due to the power car
change on NT1 at Central on Monday 13/12/99 delaying NT1 which was then
turned around at Casino to get it back on time.

Graham Duffin,
Salisbury, Qld.

"Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.umpires.com> writes:
> >stephen wrote in message ...
> >What happened with this service that was supposed to leave Melbourne
> >around 8.00 pm on Monday 13/12/99?
> >
> >My mother was bussed from Melbourne to Albury last night then XPT to
> >Sydney. It seems it was about an hour late out of Albury, and about
> >two hours late into Sydney. Passengers, including my mother, who thus
> >missed the connection with the Sydney-Murwillumbah XPT were then
> >bussed north.
> >
> >I'm simply curious as to what the problem was.
> 
> Dunno if it had any effect, BUT there was a power car change on NT1 -
> Brisbane XPT at Central on Monday 13/12. *Perhaps* (you know, wild
> speculation) there was some problem at Meeks Road, and ST3 left horribly
> late, and they terminated it at Albury, and this stuffed things up all day?
> 
> Yet another example of the XPT fleet being over-utilised.
> 
> Dave
> 
>