Re: Why the IP ended up on Platform 5

["David Proctor" <daproc@sd4.mailbank.com>]

Platform 5? I thought it was 6.

DaveP

Jack wrote in message ...
>Hi David...
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>David Proctor wrote in message <7h6g0k$8b$2@news.mel.aone.net.au>...
>>Todays inward Indian Pacific arrived on Platform 6 at Sydney Central -
>>unable to ascertain why (I was arriving on a Blue Mountains train) and
>>unable to say whether WL1 left from Platform 1.
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>>Interesting too was that SP20 Canberra XPL arrived on Platfrom 7. NP23 was
>>on Platofrom 2 and cars from NT4 were on Platform 3 - MotoRail wagons were
>>in the dock - so I am not sure what the problem was.
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>I saw all that too..... the reason for the f**k up  was a walkoff by
Country
>link On board Staff over an industrial issue.... re door closing procedures
>on XPT's.. a PSS had been stood down on the weekend over an incident at
>Henty, where a woman jumped from a moving XPT...
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>As a result Sydney Station became very congested as NO Countrylink services
>left Sydney on time... WT27 was on Platform 1, ST2 was on 2, NT3 was on 3
>and SP19 was on 4, that ws why the IP ended up on 5...  As a result WT27/28
>was cancelled and replaced by busses as was SP 19.... NT3 was also
cancelled
>and replaced by busses.... the set for ST3 was still at Meeks Road.. The
set
>on platform 3 was transposed from NT3 to ST3.... and the Set originally
>rostered on ST3 work NT3 MT cars to Grafton departing Meeks Road at 1025..
>this set ran via Enfield.... On arrival at Grafton the MT cars will form
NT4
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>Cheers
>Jack
>Queensland: Perfect One day
>Beautiful the next
>And wet for the other 363 days of the year
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