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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by JCtrain In response to SpaceMouse. Ditto, but now Im confused... In respsonse to jfugate... If you have a double mainline...then one line is only used as a passing siding?! And the other is the one that trains travel on? (-_- )? Now that doesnt seem right.... [/quote] Haven't read all the pages yet... BUT... the one thing I never seem to see on models is trains running westbound on the eastbound main etc. this even shows in Trains Mag and other places... no-way I'd know about it otherwise. Come on! You did it when running on Train Orders! WHY don't modellers do it/know about it. I LOVE winding people up when I can run on modular layouts... all my CNW consists get set up to run left hand road... that's right way round...then "all the rest" are running "Wrong Road". In the UK up to the 1980s pretty much all twin/multiple track except Paddington to the South West was one-line-one-direction. Anything else was "Reversible" if short/local. I don't know if it was the Western Main that introduced "Bi directional"... I'd heard about it but it still had an interesting effect on the intestines the first time a train came whizzing round the one I was in, in the same direction on the right hand track of two... only two! Here most "Wrong Direction Movements" were similar to OOGs... "Out of Gauge Loads"... a pain... you hardly ever saw them... so you had to go and read up your Rule Book. To save himself time and writing later the Inspector might well phone you up when he knew a planned wrong-line or OOG was in the offing. Running "Wrong Road" was unofficially known as running "Bang Road"... 'cos that was what you got if you did it wrong... Running... or tieing up... wrong line was similar to a "Take Siding" order for a slower train... it got the train out of the way for a faster train to get ahead of it. The thing that the Dispatcher has to consider is the time that the slower train will take to get out of the way. This will depend in oart on whether it can run facing to the other line or siding or will have to stop and set back... added to which... setting back involves a propelling move = more risk of a car jumping the tracks and tieing up everything. It might be quicker to set the fast (passenger/ short/ expedite train back onto the opposite road and round a slow train than to risk messing about with a hundred or more very mixed cars and loads.
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