02-19-2018, 08:44 PM
(02-19-2018, 08:31 PM)timc Wrote:(02-19-2018, 08:26 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: Not the one just south of Northfield. I mean immediately south of the platform. And the reason for it is that single-track operation is planned late at night.
Why will there be single track operation on the spur line? The freight usage will be outside of ion service hours, right?
The last I heard, which admittedly is some time ago so things may have changed, the rules were to be one northbound freight between 23:00 and 01:00. During this time LRT would operate using only the northbound track. From 01:00 to 05:00 no LRT traffic and freight can run as much as they want (which in practice means one southbound trip during that time).
During the period of concurrent operation, the shared trackage between northbound LRT and freight consists of the track from the switch at Waterloo Town Square to the freight crossover by the Perimeter Institute, maybe about 300m. For southbound LRT the shared trackage exists from the freight crossover to the LRT crossover, maybe 75m.
I’ve actually been a bit surprised to see freight still going north around 21:00. LRT isn’t in operation yet of course but I had been expecting the freight to start operating within the LRT restrictions by now.