Tony

I think the important thing is that St James section, including emptying people out, head into the tunnel, reverse and back to reload could be done consistently at about 34 mph is still far better than what they are predicting for a “modern” auto metro that removes the on board human control. The old local know how was better than the O/S genii, then and now.

Re the Shore lines they did go through Central to Wynyard to North Sydney with turn back facilities for trains using low level. The circuits were designed for 42 tph. I am not sure if it was ever achieved although it did witness the close headway working on a number of times before the City Railway was resignalled in the 1990s.

What is what I was trying to say was that what the older manual systems were designed to achieve, was a greater throughput than what the modern systems are designed for.

Bob T

> On 21 Mar 2019, at 08:38, Prescott lenkaprescott@...> wrote:

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> But it never went anywhere did it? It might have been good at the start but in the long term it just folded.

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> Tony P

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> On Thursday, 21 March 2019 07:41:55 UTC+11, Robert Taaffe wrote:

> In the old days Sydney used a relay driver for quick turnarounds at St James and Wynyard Low Level. They achieved greater capacity than that being claimed for the auto metro. Remember the old electrics only had two doors on each side of each car.

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> The Shore lines through the city were originally signalled for 42 trains per hour per track.

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> Bob T

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