Re: Country(link?) - try walking instead

[Don Allitt <nahgfa@zeta.org.au>]

Exactily,we were put away allbe it at the Gloucester station for 15 mins the
other day while a N.R.C. went thru non stop.
Don.

Jack wrote:

> 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