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Jacob_ULG3 wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 12, 2022 11:52 pm

There's a few of those.

There's 2 buffer points on the new Elizabeth turnback track which got used today as a train had to get passengers to disembark due to an electrical fault.

There's 1 north of the Gawler Junction that heads towards the old roseworthy and Nuriootpa line.

All of them have assisted tracks and also derailer points after them as well.

1NEEDS2POST wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 13, 2022 10:20 pm

Why do they only use one platform at Gawler? It doesn't go to one track until the Gawler Oval side, so it seems this restricts the frequency of trains for no apparent reason.

1NEEDS2POST wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 13, 2022 10:20 pm

Why do they only use one platform at Gawler? It doesn't go to one track until the Gawler Oval side, so it seems this restricts the frequency of trains for no apparent reason.

PD2/20 wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 13, 2022 9:42 pm

Jacob_ULG3 wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 12, 2022 11:52 pm

There's a few of those.

There's 2 buffer points on the new Elizabeth turnback track which got used today as a train had to get passengers to disembark due to an electrical fault.

There's 1 north of the Gawler Junction that heads towards the old roseworthy and Nuriootpa line.

All of them have assisted tracks and also derailer points after them as well.

When was the train affected by the electrical fault? I spent the afternoon at various locations between Salisbury and North Adelaide taking photos, but noticed the 1525 from Gawler didn't come through N Adelaide.

What is meant by 'assisted track'?

Jacob_ULG3 wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 14, 2022 12:58 am

PD2/20 wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 13, 2022 9:42 pm

Jacob_ULG3 wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 12, 2022 11:52 pm

There's a few of those.

There's 2 buffer points on the new Elizabeth turnback track which got used today as a train had to get passengers to disembark due to an electrical fault.

There's 1 north of the Gawler Junction that heads towards the old roseworthy and Nuriootpa line.

All of them have assisted tracks and also derailer points after them as well.

When was the train affected by the electrical fault? I spent the afternoon at various locations between Salisbury and North Adelaide taking photos, but noticed the 1525 from Gawler didn't come through N Adelaide.

What is meant by 'assisted track'?

Your right the 15:25pm Gawler To Adelaide service was cancelled. Railcar 4009 was at the turnback track at elizabeth and got all passengers to disembark the train. Due to a mechanical fault with one of the railcars.

The 4009 railcar was already in the Elizabeth turnback when I arrived at elizabeth at 15:19pm. Minutes later the 15:25pm to Gawler Central arrived picking up all the passengers that had to disembark before.

It left the track around 15:23pm bound for either Dry Creek or Seaford Meadows.

The live timetable display for when the train arrives said 15:19pm To Adelaide then wait 59minutes for the 16:19pm To Adelaide.

I have a video of it leaving the turnback track if your interested

VLtom wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 14, 2022 8:58 am

Thankfully the 2019 plan did include passive provision for electrification, but I wouldn't expect the Outer Harbour Line electrification to progress hugely by 2026, unless the feds are very interested in split funding rail schemes.

[Shuz] wrote:Now that Gawler is done, reckon we'll see any progress on electrifying Outer Harbor before next state election?

I think the devil will be in the detail for the Port Dock extension if they will leave room for the electrification infrastructure - poles / wires / substations.

Spotto wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 14, 2022 10:36 am

[Shuz] wrote:Now that Gawler is done, reckon we'll see any progress on electrifying Outer Harbor before next state election?

I think the devil will be in the detail for the Port Dock extension if they will leave room for the electrification infrastructure - poles / wires / substations.

The time to plan electrification of Outer Harbor was two years ago and have it flow on immediately after Gawler or run in tandem. Roll the same work crews from Gawler to OH as one continuous project.

If electrification does happen soon, it will essentially waste all the money put into the life extension and repowering of the 3000s. Unless if we strip the interiors and repurpose them for short-distance regional rail (i.e. Barossa, Two Wells, Kapunda).

[Shuz] wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 15, 2022 3:10 pm

Mali announced today that they are repurchasing land for the rail corridor for the future extension to Aldinga.

Apparently the previous Marshall Liberal Government had sold it off? I didn't know that - did anyone else?