Re: Countrylink GM Sacked

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@sd5.mailbank.com>]

Jack <bd107@tsn.cc> wrote in message
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> At present if all the units are available, there are only 2 spare power
> cars, as one is always in being painted... so when the painting of the
> things is finished it will improve somewhat... Only having 2 spare
available
> is running things pretty fine... watch for the Dubbo to start running with
1
> unit.... It may already have done so... Oh yeah, keep the Xplorers where
> they are :)

Yeah, was not suggesting otherwise - I was suggesting that a minimal
outlay - maybe an extra 6 cars - 2 each of EA, EB and EC - so that you would
have an extra Xplorer set.

Buying 2 of each would give them 9 of each car type, and with a three car
Xplorer running the Dubbo service would give them 2 spare cars of each
type - which is a good margin for problems, as well as giving them a bit
more leeway to build up sets at peak periods.

The situation of only having one carriage spare of each type is ridiculous.
It applies to both the Xplorer fleet and the XPT fleet - they have 7 oof
each type of Xplorer carriage, and require 6 of each daily. They have 8
XAM's and require 7 (although it would be possible, though troublesome, so
get away with 6) - sooner or later these cars will have to go in for heavy
overhaul involving total stripdown - at the moment, they only have one
spare - and that heavy overhaul time is when failures are guaranteed to
happen.

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DaveProctor
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