Re: Tocamwal and North

[David Langley <del@ancc.com.au>]

Doug Mason wrote:

> Now I have heard this from several different people, and they all say that
> Freight vic's main objective is to open up north of Tocamwal with broad
> gauge. Also I have heard that the drivers at Shepparton may all get moved to
> Tocamwal because now they run the trains from Melbourne to Tocamwal then
> drive a car back to Shepparton.  Also 9354 (night goods ex Tocamwal) has been
> retimtabled to leave Tocamwal about 7:30pm so no more crosses at Murchison
> East, as Shepparton will only have one person working at a time. So what has
> happened to all the new goods that Freight Vic reckoned they had to go by
> rail.

The trains (were are lead to believe) will be super long and thus will not be
able to cross each other at the present loops, what we have left that is. The
Tocumwal trains will probably do as now and that is run in flights both ways but
avoiding the pass cross, and the hope will be that the southbound will make the
double line at Seymour before the northbounds arrive. And that the last
northbound makes Shepparton before the pass is due out next morning. This past
month has seen the second down Tocumwal in the yard at Seymour for the up pass
and sometimes when even later in the yard for the down pass to proceed. The train
that has been seen doing this has been just barely long enough to fit into
Seymour yard and we haven't really shortened it by much, reduced the width yes
but not shortened it.

David Langley.

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> Doug.
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