derailment and train management

["nobody" <dweebken@NOSPAM.yahoo.com>]

I'm not entering the debate about safeworking and all that, but couldnt
Cityrail at least think economically and properly?
I caught a train from Pennant Hills with the news ringing in my ear that
there might be delays due to a derailment. On arrival at hornsby, where I
changed to get to st Leonards, I found out the trains were being replaced by
busses between Gordon and North Sydney.

I question the logic of CityRail (Dad calls it Sh..y Snail and I'm beginning
to see why) in this move. The RSA recently replaced the crossover at
Chatswood so trains on the up line could travel over to the down line
platform.

Could CityRail have operated trains to Chatswood and Hornsby on a Point to
Point operation, therefore requiring fewer busses on a shorter route @ less
cost and time waste? On arrival at Chatswood a train could be directed into
the down platform, then go back the other way. Excess trains could be held
at Gordon or Lindfield or Hornsby. They have the infrastructure to do it -
why did they congest traffic and increase delays by stopping trains at
gordon?

Can someone inform me as to whether this can be done?




Brendan