Re: Melton - Bacchus Marsh close revisited.

[G.Lambert@unsw.edu.au (Geoff Lambert)]

Chris Brownbill gave the number of trains using this section on 10
May.

The public handout shows the following

	Down	Up
M-F	25	30
Sat	20	21
Sun	15	17

This compares with the Dec 1998 NSP:

	Down	Up
M-F	21	22
Sat	8	9
Sun	6	6

Obviously (probably?) there must be balancing empty movements on the
Down, or do some trains run coupled on the Down?  

In addition, comparison of the up and down tables shows 8 Up trains
departing Melton in the morning before any Down train arrives.  Unless
the trains are being stored on the Melton-Parwan section overnight,
there must be even more empty movements to put them there.

Does anybody have any "WTT" or "S" document showing these movements,
or don't such things exist anymore?

Geoff Lambert