Re: derailment and train management

[billboltonREMOVE-TO-EMAIL@computer.org (Bill Bolton)]

"nobody" <dweebken@NOSPAM.yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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

AFAIK, the emergency release crossover at Chatswood is not signalled
to allow for regular service Down movements from the Up platform and a
since is not regularly used, would probably be not immediately useable
because of the 72 hour rule.  

Gordon is signalled to allow that sort of reversing of direction of
travel movement using the centre road (platform 2) and a Down trains
each day run through Platform 2 to ensure that the centre road to Down
crossover is regularly used. 

Cheers,

Bill