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Originally Posted by BCPhil
I think the biggest slow down is in the signalling. I have no idea how long the signal block are, but they seem pretty long. So a train could be waiting at a signal for a train to clear a block that could be miles away. I've seen the Cascades stopped waiting at the entrance to the Grandview Cut after just leaving Pacific Central for a train that was probably in Burnaby crossing the mainline into the tunnel to the North Shore.
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The signal block that starts at the CN Junction (at the west end of the Grandview Cut) runs through the Cut to Slocan Street on the east end, where there is another set of signals and the switch for the beginning of double-tracking. That block and the others between there and the New Westminster bridge are not IMHO particularly long - some of them are probably shorter than some of the freight consists that go through there.
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