Re: What Happens to Aussie trains when the Time Changes?

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

"Rod" <comtrain@mpx.com.au> wrote:

> We just keep them rolling here in
>Victoria! we change about 0200 hrs, but as  our State is pretty small,
>within 24 hours everything is back to normal.

Questions like this- especially where trains take more than 24 hours
to complete their journeys, and where trains are run on timetable
priorities (as in much of North America) can become quite a fixation
for operators, not only when there is a time change, but also when a
new Employee Time Table is introduced.  ETTs usually "have effect",
from 12.01 a.m. on the day of their introduction.  Rights are assigned
on the basis  of time table and direction.  Trains already in transit
when the ETT or DST change occurs can find themselves in a confusing
situation.  The AAR 1938  "omnibus" "Standard Code of Operating Rules"
had a multi-page section of questions and answers on this matter.  The
questions had been raised with the AAR's Rules CVommittee by the
Superintendents of railroads who seemed to be able to find the most
amazingly esoteric complications arising from the time and timetable
changes.

Geoff Lambert