Re: Indian Pacific Crash

[mauried@commslab.gov.au (Maurie Daly)]

In article <01be5635$e6aff820$87ee38cb@default> "Lachlan Smith" <lsmith@senet.com.au> writes:
>From: "Lachlan Smith" <lsmith@senet.com.au>
>Subject: Re: Indian Pacific Crash
>Date: 12 Feb 99 03:16:44 GMT

>| A result of the late arrival of the IP on Wednesday morning, due to the
>| level crossing crash, was the filling of Keswick terminal,      
>| Platform 1 held the late leaving IP bound for Sydney,                  
>| Platform 2 saw the arrival of the Ghan from the Alice bound for
>| Melbourne, and Platform 3 the arrival of the Overland from Melbourne.  
>| GSR had a busy time shuffling locos,cars and motorails.               
>| Also in the western dock were the "new" silver Overland cars with their
>| new Kookaburra motif on the sides.

>If the terminal was relocated to North Terrace, with only one platform, one
>wonders how GSR would cope with situations such as the above.

>Lachlan


Spencer St , with only two platforms , both dead ended,handles many more SG 
movements per week than Keswick ever will, and seems to manage.
In the days of the Old Aurora, Spirit and Daylight , there were 6 SG train
movements per day every day of the week (Sunday excepted for the Daylight) 
all using No 1 platform.
Its just a question of management.
MD