|
|
| Re: Platform Lengths - BMT Eastern Divisiion routes (1506588) | |||
 |
|||
| Home > SubChat | |||
|
[ Read Responses | Post a New Response | Return to the Index ] |
|
||
|
Re: Platform Lengths - BMT Eastern Divisiion routes |
|
|
Posted by randyo on Sun Mar 10 19:22:55 2019, in response to Re: Platform Lengths - BMT Eastern Divisiion routes, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sun Mar 10 11:07:28 2019. I don’t recall hearing that from you but that does make a bit of sense if the TA wanted to expeditiously transfer cars between locations. When I first became a T/D in 1970, I would often get the midnight at 207 St and Lefferts was always 20 cars over for Mon AM service. At the time the TA was operating 10 car trains of R-10s on the A all night long without cutting. What I would do is cut 4 trains to 5 cars and send those 4 trains down to lefferts where the would be added back up to 10s and full length 10 car trains would be put in al Lefferts till the car service was balanced. The reason for the discrepancy was that during the times that trains were cut, the car service was balanced on the timetable by indicating various train lengths to be operated. while the number of S/B vs N/B trips didn’t balance due to the cutting, the car service always would. When the TA stopped overnight cutting, one end of the line or the other would be over so in the case I mentioned at 205 St, it was necessary to make unscheduled cuts and adds rather than transfer light train between terminals. It wasn’t too long after that the timetables were rewritten in such a way that there were equal numbers of S/B and N/B trips so that the service would balance regardless of train lengths. |
|
(There are no responses to this message.)
|
|