Re: [NSW] Airport Line Timetable Query

["Hubert Lam" <hubert@imap4.com>]

I was wondering why bother running East Hills Line services through Sydenham at all, since the
Airport line is all dedicated to 1. provide the airport with high frequencies and 2. alleviate the
capacity problems between Sydenham and Central that also hold up Bankstown trains.

In terms of management, it would be the simplest to run trains just all through the Airport. Seems a
little arrogant in a way but seeing that we have so much problems running the trains already it's
best to KISS- Keep It Simple Stupid.


"Gnome 412" <gnome412@hotmail.com> wrote in message dWfN4.627$PL4.18733@ozemail.com.au">news:dWfN4.627$PL4.18733@ozemail.com.au...
> Dave Proctor wrote in message ...
> >Assuming that this is going to be the standard off-peak timetable (always
> >dangerous to assume, I know) the intervals do not look that crash hot. From
> >Central, trains to the airport at XX11, XX18, XX28, XX41, XX48, XX58, etc.
> >Intervals of 7mins, 10mins, 13mins, 7mins, 10mins, 13mins in the hour. Why
> >couldn't they make it nice and simple and have it every ten minutes? The
> one
> >to move would have been the XX11 and XX41 back three minutes, since this is
> >only going to Turrella, the only place it would clash with the rest of the
> >system is the City and on departure from Central (I bet tey wished they
> >hadn't made that layout at the end of 22/23 the way that had).
>
>
> Mmmm.....
>
> The plan seems to have been "fix the Airport Line, without changing anything
> else".
>
> In a "sample hour", Bankstown trains leave Central (suburban platforms)
> platform 22 at 12:08 (to Regents Park and Lidcombe), 12:23 (to Liverpool via
> Sefton), 12:38, 12:53 (as in the previous timetable).  This seems to have
> been handled as an incremental change to what is basically the 1988
> timetable.
>
> Given the experiences of Cit-yra-il and its predecessors with revolutionary
> all-new timetables in 1975 and 1996, maybe that's the safest course of
> action.
>
> I agree that, given different junction arrangements, the xx:11 train could
> have been handled as arrive from Circular Quay at xx:05 and depart at xx:08
> (taking that long to load all the backpackers from YHA Central) to give a
> standard interval at the airport.
>
> As an alternative, the Bankstown trains (with their alternating Lidcombe and
> Liverpool destinations) could run at 13/17 minute intervals.  As a real
> alternative, the East Hills via Sydenham, Liverpool via Bankstown and
> Lidcombe via Bankstown trains could run at 10 minute intervals at a slight
> inconvenience to people at stations Marrickville to Birrong.  A regular 5
> minute interval service around the City Circle would be great for the people
> who are just travelling on the City Circle!
>
> There is a problem with "since this is only going to Turrella".  The
> unfinished junction arrangements there mean that a train going to Turrella
> either reverses at Turrella (platform 2) very quickly, or runs empty from
> Wolli Creek into the dead-end that will one day be the "down relief" without
> a platform at Turrella.
>
> On a related topic, somebody suggested on 31/12/99 that printing the public
> timetables would be delayed.
>
> But, as aus.rail has been debating for a year, this ain't Heathrow Express,
> this is Cit-yra-il (about as exciting, in Airport Link terms, as the Boston
> MBTA Blue Line!).
>
> Rgds
>
>