Re: Platform O at Lidcombe

[David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>]

David Proctor wrote:

> Jamie Grahame wrote in message <7b17jh$7tv$1@toto.tig.com.au>...
> I think Olympic Park can only take 2 * 8 car trains at any one time.
>
> The platforms are longer than 8 cars at Olympic Park - at one time they were
> talking about running 12 car trains between Central and O Park. Maybe David
> Johnson could help out on this.

They were talking about it, but I don't don't it was ever going to become a
reality.  Tangaras are not designed to run in 12 car blocks.  The platforms at
Olympic Park are long enough to accomodate an 8 car inter-city set (about 10
suburban cars).

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