Re: Long platforms

["WhaleOilBeefHooked" <daproc@sd5.mailbank.com>]

Roderick Smith <rodsmith@werple.net.au> wrote in message
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> Dave Anonymous has missed the point of my comment.
> The semantics issue was not to do with the length of Albury's two
> platforms; it was to do with people who felt that Flinders St pfm 1 should
> be excluded (and Cronulla).

But in an earlier post in this thread, somebody DEFINITELY said that the
difference between SG and BG platfroms at Albury was in the vicinity of
250m - enough to hold a 7 car XPT. THAT is what I was referring to.

DaveP

>
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> Regards
> Roderick Smith
> Rail News Victoria Editor
>
> WhaleOilBeefHooked <daproc@spambait.umpires.com> wrote in article
> > Roderick Smith <rodsmith@werple.net.au> wrote in message
> > > As posted earlier, Albury sg is 456 m.
> > > Albury bg is 334 m (14 carriages).
> > > The semantics over one train vs two train can be ignored:
> > Really? I cannot ignore the poster who said the difference was around
> 250m -
> > around the length of a 2+7 XPT - if the figures you give are correct
(and
> I
> > am NOT disputing them) then the difference is only 122 metres.
>