Re: [NSW] Who's got the worst trains

[David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>]

Gnome 412 wrote:

> An investigation by The Daily Telegraph has found there were 1503 passenger
> carriages on the CityRail network on June 30 last year carrying 741,000
> passengers a day, an average of 493 passengers for each carriage.

Right, but some trains do up to 25 runs in a day, so this reveals nothing!

> By comparison Indian Railways, notorious for overcrowding, carries 11
> million passengers a day in 39,104 carriages, an average of just 281
> passengers for each carriage.

How many runs per day, and how many are each carriage designed to carry, and how
many cars are out of service at any one time?


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