Re: Country(link?) - try walking instead

["Jack" <bd107@tsn.cc>]

Hi Don...

Don Allitt wrote in message <38181F04.71D45A93@zeta.org.au>...
>Where you get confused is that sometimes C.L.is put away as it simply
arrives at
>the crossing loop first. Someone has to be first and if a freighter is
dragging
>the chain then it goes straight thru. Conversely if th e freighter arrives
first
>it has to wait.I have seen plenty of both.
>Don.


I think what you are missing is the point that as far as I know, and I am
open to correction on this by someone who may know better, is that the
service that is ontime has the prority... If the freight services are on
time, they should be in the loop waiting for the passenger train...  There
is only 1 crossing on the North Coast where the XPT is tabled to go away for
the freighter and that is NT 2 and MB4 at Bundook... My point is, that when
an XPT is late, the train controllers run the freight services into the
passenger at *every* opportunity... but when the freight is late and the xpt
is OK they still manage to cross overlength Freight services with xpt at
short loops... each one of these crossings takes 8 - 10 minutes out of the
XPT.. and people wonder why the pass is sometimes late..

Cheers
Jack
Queensland: Perfect One day
Beautiful the next
And wet for the other 363 days of the year