Robert Elz said:
| >> Should we have a zone for these trains? | | They should have switched after Kalgoorlie, maybe about Caiguna, to Eucla | +8/9:45 zone, before the state border, and stayed on that zone till maybe about | Cook, or somewhere else short of Adelaide.
I don't know where you think the train runs, but it is nowhere particularly close to either Caiguna (at that approx longitude it is close to Rawlinna, a hundred km or so north) or the Eucla timezone enclave (which is quite small, and on the coast
Indeed. And by "close to Rawlinna" you actually mean it goes between the airstrip (150 metres south) and the mine (1 km north) at Rawlinna.
I've travelled on it a few times (though once is really enough ... there is just so much of looking out windows at vast expanses of scrub land that one can take in a lifetime ... though it is certainly worth doing that once)
Indeed, once is certainly worth doing.
and didn't recall it going near Eucla, so I checked ...
The best map I can find is https://www.luxotren.com/files/images/media/mapa-recorridos.jpg This doesn't have a scale on it, but Eucla is almost at the state border and the nearest stop - Deakin - is almost exactly 100 km north of there.
What times are used depends more on where the train will be in the middle of the day, and changes in the middle of the night, as (just like everyone else) having a situation where the train reached the "logical" place to switch zones just as the 12:00 lunch sitting are about to be seated, only for them to be told, "sorry your mealtime is over the next sitting is starting - we just changed time zones and it is 13:00 now) (assuming a Perth->Sydney train) would not go down too well.
In our case one change was at about 01:00 -> 02:00 (official departure from Kalgoorlie was 02:30 and my GPS log says 02:28) but the other was 12:49:28 -> 14:19:28. I forget (and haven't recorded) when we had lunch, but there were only 12 of us in Red Class and it was a buffet, not fixed sittings. -- Clive D.W. Feather | If you lie to the compiler, Email: clive@davros.org | it will get its revenge. Web: http://www.davros.org | - Henry Spencer Mobile: +44 7973 377646