Re: Melbourne Double deckers

[cmgord@ecr.mu.oz.au (Christopher_Martin GORDON)]

: Melboune is very unlikely to get DD trains as it was against Government
: policy. That is why not.
: Increased frequency poses problems too. Where are they getting the extra
: trains and drivers from?
: 90 sec headways are dreamland stuff in Melbourne. The closest headways were
: between Blackburn and Ringwood which could handle 17 trains per hour each
: way after the signalling was upgraded in the early (?) '80s.
: David G.

he signalling has been upgrade in the early 1980's for trains to geet
from Mitcham to Nunawading and from Blackburn to Laburnam with 90sec
headways.  But the rest is still as is from the 1950's.  

This is part of my current project.  (A book about signalling, safeworking
and level crossing protection in Victoria)

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Chris Gordon
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