[NSW] Regents Park vs. Granville lines?

["Bradley Torr" <btorr@bigpond.nospam.com>]

Hi,

Having spent my adolescence in the lovely city of Liverpool, NSW, and
regularly travelling up to Sydney throughout my formative years, this
question has always bothered me - why is it that the All Stations To
Liverpool goes down the Regent's Park anabranch, but the Express goes the
long way via Granville and Fairfield? The so-called 'express' trains out to
Liverpool via Granville are hardly expresses at all - they generally stop at
all stations from Lidcombe onward, and still takes approximately 50 minutes!
Meanwhile, the Regents Park line which is shorter in distance suffers the
"all stations to Central" trains...... which stop at all those pissy little
inner-west stations where, like, a whole two people get on and off... it
takes up to 1 hour and 5 minutes!

In my eyes, wouldn't it be better to run the south-western services like
this:

* Run the Liverpool via Granville as it now is - Redfern, Ashfield, Burwood,
Strathfield, Lidcome, all stations to Liverpool via Granville;

* Change Liverpool via Regents Park to Redfern, Strathfield, Lidcombe and
all stations to Liverpool via Regents Park;

* And all the 'pissy little inner west stations' will still be adequately
served by Bankstown trains (and possibly Liverpool via Granville trains in
the off-peak).

This would greatly improve services to Liverpool and even Campbelltown
commuters (who will then have a decent alternative to the shoddy East Hills
service, even if it will be a few minutes longer) and means that Regents
Park anabranch commuters won't have to sit through the tedium of stopping
all stations for 30 kilometres!

Any thoughts or comments (especially from those who are better acquainted
with CityRail operations?)

Regards,
Bradley.