Re: Airport line - track maintenance shutdowns

["Chris Downs" <cvdowns@hermes.net.au>]

How about terminating at Central and turning back at the trailing crossover
between Central and Goulburn St?  Other City Circle services would serve as
feeders.

Chris


Mcnivenw wrote in message <19990603044814.08089.00000428@ng-fy1.aol.com>...
>I've been back in Sydney for a fortnight.
>
>The changes I see in CityRail include construction of the junctions for the
>"New Southern Railway" and a weekly poster advising of the very numerous
>shutdowns (weren't NightRide buses supposed to fix these?).
>
>I see that virtually every night there is a shutdown of one half or the
other
>of the City Circle.  I also see that the construction at Prince Alfred Park
>seems to provide connections from Green Square towards St. James, but not
to
>platforms 16 - 19.
>
>This raises the question of how the line will be worked when half the City
>Cirle is closed.
>
>A few suggestions:
>
>Buses in lieu of trains between Turella and Central?
>
>Interlocked crossovers from Platforms 20 and 22 to connect to Town Hall?
>
>A subterranean junction to connect to Platforms 24 and 25?
>
>Hasten the Speedrail connection to Platform 15 and terminate there?
>
>Terminate at the crossover near Hay Street?
>
>A long wrong-road shunt at Flying Junctions (e.g. to get to the City Outer,
set
>back on the Up Illawarra; to get from the City Inner, set back on the Down
>Illawarra to Platform 22)?
>
>Single line working from Green Square into Platform 23?