Re: [NSW] Skipping stations - is it a common practice?

["ERIKA" <torpan@myrealbox.com>]

This is all very well,but hey its not very good when you catch a all
stations from Mt Colah to Waverton and it skimps thru to North Sydney,with
NO communication.The problem is the improvement of the communication skills
of you people.

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"C. Dewick" <craigd@lios.apana.org.au> wrote in message
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> Hi Danny,
>
> >I like to know is how often the trains skipped stations (average per
> >day/week)? And is it a common practice if the train is running late as I
> >heard a lot from the media "bashing" about the trains skipping stations -
> >please verify?
>
> Stopping patterns can only be altered from what's in the working
> timetable(s) by Network Control officially (We all know that train drivers
> are human and sometimes forget to stop at a particular station, but that's
> not the point being discussed), and it really depends on what is going on
> where.
>
> The people in Network Control have access to running information for the
> entire CityRail network, so that can co-ordinate together to work out the
> best way to get trains running on time again with as little overall
> disruption as possible, and often that will involve changing the stopping
> pattern of one or more trains (called 'transposing' the train), and if the
> situation is very bad, some runs may be cancelled or terminatated short of
> their destination and sent off somewhere else.
>
> There's no way to really put a figure to the number of transpositions that
> are issued in any one week, since it depends on what incidents take place.
> Some weeks are fairly free of incidents which require trains to be
> transposed and/or cancelled, while other weeks can see major problems
almost
> every day due to any number of factors (not always railway-related).
>
> The problem is that you, as an individual, might be on a train that is
> transposed or cancelled or delayed, and because you'll probably only look
at
> it from your personal perspective, you don't see the overall picture, and
> most people assume that they've been 'done a dirty' because *their* train
> has been singled out for a change of plans. That's where the Network
Control
> people come in because they see the overall picture and often if one peak
> hour train is cancelled, it might directly affect 1000 people, but that
> single cancellation could indirectly improve the situation for many
> thousands of other passengers who are waiting for other trains which are
> also running late.
>
> Regards,
>
> Craig.
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