12-13-2017, 11:14 PM
(12-13-2017, 03:21 PM)KevinL Wrote:(12-13-2017, 02:19 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: My understanding is that LRT service will use only the northbound track late at night in order to leave the southbound track for freight only.
I believe LRVs will NEVER be active on any tracks outside the OMSF when the freight is active. Full separation of modes.
The document I saw said that one freight could go northbound between 23:00 and 01:00, sharing the northbound LRT track between the switch at Waterloo Town Square and the crossover near Perimeter Institute. Then from 01:00 to 05:00 the freight has exclusive use of that piece of trackage. So it shares maybe 200m of track with northbound LRT traffic and 50m of track with southbound LRT traffic.
Of course given the speeds, frequency and nature of service, and modern signalling systems, it would be perfectly safe to just mix freights in with LRT traffic in this specific case, but it’s a lot easier (i.e., possible) to get approval for an almost completely time-separated operation.