Re: Extra Blacktown platform (was: St Leonards, NSW)

[Railway Rasputin <bob@fastlink.com.au>]

How about some LOGIC from whoever plans the routes of trains?
ALL shore trains terminate on 1&2, that will alleviate the hassel of
Xing over and blocking all tracks. Trains thnat go by the main do the
Berowra service. there is enought loops on the main to run interurbans
etc arround.
If the Shore types whinge "stuff 'em".
rgds

Oh shit Ive stuffed it up and used LOGIC so it won't happen.

Harland Sanders wrote:
> 
> daproc@spambait.umpires.com (Dave Proctor) wrote in
> <7uqu5j$6t7$1@news1.mpx.com.au>:
> 
> >there are other things you failed to mention ... Blacktown has an
> >extensive bus/rail interchange, Hornsby has none.
> 
> Umm, have you been to Hornsby?
> 
> >And what is so onerous about terminating services? You close the doors and
> >go up to the yard. All you need is a station assistant to assist with
> >checking the train is empty.
> 
> Umm, have you been to Hornsby?
> 
> >That is an operational thing and is easily sorted with a few extra station
> >staff to help check terminating trains, and if they were to employ guards
> >with balls (to close the doors and get going, rather than waiting for
> >people running down the stairs to try and catch an already late train).
> 
> Most terminating trains are not checked by staff, since they go off to
> the yard and come back <30mins later as an up service.
> 
> The problem is getting a path out of Hornsby to the yard.
> 
> >I am not familiar with the layout of Hornsby yard
> 
> Really?
> 
> > - is it possible to put a
> >train in a loop somewhere (thus clearing the platform) and when the
> >interurban goes, send the other train out behind it?
> 
> Yep, and its these simple maneuvers that are causing the problems when
> things start to get rough.
> 
> A typical situation is
> - down main suburban terminates on platform 4
> - down Berowra due in on platform 2
> - up shores hoging platform 1
> - up interurban north of yard reserves platform 3
> - down interurban waiting outside platform 4
> - up main suburban waiting in yard for platform 3
> 
> Half these trains have to wait for the other half before they can
> cross over the occupied lines or get into the occupied platforms.
> 
> Add in a Countrylink or freight service to the list and you have a very
> merry situation.
> 
> You can almost guarantee that delays will compound.
> 
> I'm not sure if the signallers are boneheads, or maybe the timetablers,
> or maybe as people are suggesting it just can't cope.
> 
> The absolute regularity of waiting outsite Hornsby for >= 5mins every day
> really pisses people off, although we are certainly use to it!
> 
> >--
> >DaveProctor
> >thadocta AT dingoblue.net.au
> >
> 
> No longer fHooked hey doc |-)?