Re: Ararat seeks public's view of planned rail restart

[dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)]

Maurie Daly (mauried@tpg.com.au) wrote:
> I cant understand why it would be less economic to run a pass train service on 
> SG to Ararat and beyong possibly (at least to Horsham) ,than it would be to 
> run a service just to Ararat on the old BG.

SG suffers from long journey times and congestion.

> Its more sensible to run the service on SG simply because it increases the 
> utilization of the existing SG line

You don't think it's congested enough already? 5 hours to Ararat is not
going to be attractive to passengers. On BG via Ballarat you can be there
in half the time, making a day return attractive.

Why would anybody in Ararat want to spend 10 hours on a train to go to
Melbourne and back in a day?

> provider (ARTC) and increases the likelyhood of raising the speed limit on 
> this line to 115 km/h all the way.

130km/h on a Sprinter.

> Eventually,if the train density on this line can be sufficiently increased 
> ARTC will have to implement CTC between Newport & Ararat.

Meanwhile you lose passengers as the delays and journey times increase.

> The BG service requires re opening a currently closed line

It's not closed, it's services suspended. :)

Cheers
David