Re: [NSW] New Southern Railway Timetable outlines

["Chris Downs" <cvdowns@ozemail.com.au>]

Compared with Brisbane and Perth, Sydney has a very good record of running
what may otherwise be empty services as passenger services, as does Adelaide
from my short stint there last year.  I can't comment on Melbourne.

As for this service???

Chris

Dave Proctor <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> "Gnome 412" <gnome412@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > In the evening, the 16:58 Bondi Junction to Hurstville returns to the
city
> > for a 18:06 Quay - Airport - Macarthur (then runs empty all the way back
> to
> > Mortdale!).
>
> Well, that is intelligent, it has a driver and a guard, why don't they run
> it as a passenger train? About the only advantage I can see to running it
MT
> is that can send it off when it is ready to go, rather than waiting for a
> timetable.
>
> Dave
>
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