Perfectly said they are holding back the commissioning of 2nd pit line purposely for freight movements and also there are not much trains originating from VSG only 9 proper mail/express/superfast only and what you said about locals is true last year i saw on news that coal or coal dust particles falling down around the tracks and polluting the nearby houses with black coal dust and they were talking about freight trains being sped up creating vibrations cracking their compound walls or even houses, the issue is real but SWR should be transparent with everything so they can be trusted with it. Wow, I didn't know about ignoring proposals from SCR and operating linking trains despite orders from RB. Wish everything goes alright in the future hope they commision both double tracking and 2nd Pitline at least later together and balance out freight and passenger movements.