Re: Derailment at OLYMPIC PARK.

[keithm@happy.dca.gov.au (Dave Malcolm)]

In article <37D5C8F0.44BADF6C@ozemail.com.au> David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au> writes:
>Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 12:24:48 +1000
>From: David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>
>Subject: Re: Derailment at OLYMPIC PARK.

>Michael Walker wrote:

>> >> Where did the bi-directional come from?? Read it again.Then if you are
>> >still
>> >> haveing trouble understanding i will draw a map and post it by snail
>> mail.
>> >> Don.
>> >
>> >From the original post:
>> >
>> >"The rail service continued using the other set going in via the exit,
>> >terminating and forming the service back to Lidcombe."
>> >
>> Why the bi-directional signalling, don't NSW have any regulations for
>> running wrong road?

>There is no bi-directional signalling on the Olympic Park Line.  The entire area
>is "Yard Working".  There are signals provided for trains running in the wrong
>direction at Olympic Park station.  They are at the South end of the platforms
>and are fixed at Stop.  In the event that a train is to be worked in the wrong
>direction, the driver simply stops at the signal telephone and the signaller
>informs him that he is to be working in the wrong direction, and off it goes.

>*This information is as I remember it from the Weekly Notices.  I am not
>qualified to work trains there!*

>--
>David Johnson
>trainman@ozemail.com.au
>http://www.ozemail.com.au/~trainman/


Would I be correct in saying it's basically a balloon loop?

Dave Malcolm