RE: Re: IWLR stuff - ads, delays and special work.
  Hunslet

Doing things on the cheap at Dulwich Hill! One of the original proposals was for a double track terminus, approached with a diamond cross-over, although this could be simplified by tow single crossovers, if space was not a problem.

Hunslet.

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Subject: RE: [TramsDownUnder] Re: IWLR stuff - ads, delays and special work..

On Saturday, 25 March 2017 5:42 PM,

Tony P wrote -

It's the single track stub at Dulwich Hill that remains the problem. They are given as little as two to three minutes there to change ends and get out again, so if one is running late, other trams back up behind and block the line. There's absolutely no recovery provision at Dulwich Hill. The line was designed with almost infinite capacity at one end and very little at the other.

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Does everyone travelling by tram on the IWLR need to go all the way to Dulwich Hill ?

The original Sydney tramways had many short workings so that only a proportion of the trams leaving the city went all the way to the end of the tram route. Are there regular short workings on the IWLR ?

As an example, the Watsons Bay line had regular short workings to Kings Cross, Double Bay, Dover Road [Rose Bay] and Vaucluse with several others for occasional use.

Noel Reed.

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Subject: Re: [TramsDownUnder] Re: IWLR stuff - ads, delays and special work..

At the Central end it's unhassled because it's a loop. Trams have several minutes scheduled standing time there that they can chew into if they're running late and have to recover. There's even scope for another tram to come in behind them while the one before is still there and stand while the one before leaves.

It's the single track stub at Dulwich Hill that remains the problem. They are given as little as two to three minutes there to change ends and get out again, so if one is running late, other trams back up behind and block the line. There's absolutely no recovery provision at Dulwich Hill. The line was designed with almost infinite capacity at one end and very little at the other.

There was provision for two tracks at the original Lilyfield terminus so somebody must have had a clue then, but the operation was so quiet it wasn't mostly needed. The stroke of "genius" came about in design of the extension to Dulwich Hill. I don't know who the culprit is, whether TfNSW or a consultant.

Tony P

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