Re: Burnley lines stuff

Christopher_Martin GORDON (cmgord@ecr.mu.oz.au)
26 Nov 1997 02:04:25 GMT

"david proctor" <daproc@bigfoot.com> writes:
This is not realy better as trains going into the city in the morning dropping off passangers in the city loop first and visa versa in the after noon is better.
They should have in the start had a bidirectional city loop so in the morning trains can go either way around the loop. Like Syndey.

Chris Gordon
cmgord@ecr.mu.oz.au
http://www.ecr.mu.oz.au/~cmgord

>Daniel Bowen <dbowen@custard.net.#SPAMTRAP#.au> wrote in article
><65de3l$94q$2@eplet.mira.net.au>...
>> Okay, there's something I don't get... maybe I'm just missing the
>point...
>>
>> The temporary timetable shows weekday AM Burnley trains running to
>> Flinders Street then via the loop. Weekday PM Burnley trains run
>> to the loop then to Flinders Street. So why exactly can't they run
>> them the opposite (and therefore normal) way?
>>

>This is actually a better way of running, as it means that the top two
>platforms at underground stations are unning in one direction, and the
>bottom two platforms are going in the other - it also increases the number
>of trains going in one direction. In the am, there were three times the
>number of trains travelling from Parliament to Flagstaff than there were
>going the other way, and vice versa in the pm. This change redresses that
>problem.

>Cheers

>>
>> Daniel
>> --
>> Daniel Bowen, Melbourne Australia.
>> Remove the spam bait to email me personally...
>>
>> 

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