Re: Interesting VLP stuff

[Michael Kurkowski <mk@netstra.com.au>]

Another thing of interest was, that of two x two car sprinter sets seen, 
all were in the older green and gold livery. Not important, just 
interesting to note.

Rgds
michael.


Krel  played poultry voodoo in <374a4757.26903709@news.netconnect.com.au> 
and kindly spat out amongst the pins and chicken bones:

>On 24 May 1999 11:14:44 GMT, Michael Kurkowski <mk@netstra.com.au>
>wrote:
>
>>Hi All,
>>
>>It was interesting two note two things today out and about in Melbourne.
>>
>>Firstly, the 4:23 down Melton ex. Spencer Street was a single FSH set 
with 
>>two P class locos (P11, P17) in push/pull config. Isn't this a bit of an 
>>overkill? I've only ever seen 6 car and 8 car sets in push/pull config 
with 
>>two locos. Anyone know why this was the case?
>>
>>Secondly, a loco allocated to Frieght Victoria was (P22) was seen at 
>>Spencer Street platform 8 at about 7:15pm on another 6 car push/pull set. 
>>With this, why couldn't they have allocated one of the P's from the 4 car 
>>to that set and not need to 'borrow' a loco from FV? Running around at 
>>Melton wouldn't have been a problem, in fact i saw an N class running 
>>around an FLH with what appeared to be a tighter schedule not much later, 
>>about an hour.
>>
>It seems that most Melton trains are either Sprinters (mostly 2 cars)
>or push/pull P class on H sets. It would appear that there are two 7
>car and one 4 car H sets on this working. 
>
>Cheers
>
>Krel
>
>Waxy Wary Zany Zebu
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