Re: [NSW] New East Hills Line timetable on CityRail site

["Hubert Lam" <hubert@imap4.com>]

Wow so many Illawarra trains on the City Circle! I never realised these existed!!! Especially the
early morning ones.


"Gnome 412" <gnome412@hotmail.com> wrote in message fNtS4.22906$PL4.471347@ozemail.com.au">news:fNtS4.22906$PL4.471347@ozemail.com.au...
> Hubert Lam wrote in a much-snipped message
>
> >> Why would weekend passengers from the North Shore transfer at Wynyard
> when
> >> every second Airport train commences at Central Electric (platform 23)?
> >The trains don't start at Central. They come from Ashfield and continue
> around the City Circle
> >before going to Central, Green Square....there's no "Eveleigh Dive"
> equilvalent to start the trains
> >from "Sydney Central" (Terminal).
> Sorry, at weekends half the trains from the Airport go to Ashfield and back
> and half terminate at Central (plat.21) and shunt to platform 23.  This is a
> consequence of the lack of foresight in the design of the junction
> arrangements.
>
> >>
> >> The approach roadway and landscaping at Wolli Creek (a Rockdale Council
> >> project) look a little tightly-scheduled.
> >Approach roadway? Isn't it supposed to be an interchange station only not
> one with access from
> >outside?? Correct me if I got my facts wrong!
>
>
> Rockdale Council is redeveloping the area as "North Arncliffe" with a
> shopping centre to come.  Over the last two months, the remains of the
> concrete plant and the last of the tramway per-way sidings have been
> bulldozed and an approach road has been built.  It remains to be seen
> whether grass and trees will replace the sea of mud outside the station in
> the next ten days.
>
> >> So now,
> >> * A Bankstown or East Hills via Tempe train can't be indicated at
> Platform
> >> 23
> >They won't start from 23 then!!!
> >> * An Airport train can't be indicated at Platform 22
> >As above, they won't start from 22
>
> So the flexibility of two parallel platforms is destroyed by short-term
> cost-cutting on indicators!  More likely, there will be a five minute delay
> while somebody announces "attention pleas-a on platform 23 trains are
> running late and out of time-a-table order please disregard the indicator
> board the train on platform 23 will stop at-a Red-a-fern, Sydenham, then-a
> all stations to Banks-a-town attention pleas-a this train does not go to the
> airport".
>
> >> * An Illawarra train on the City Outer can't be indicated at Town Hall.
> >Not many more Illawarra trains on the City Outer except the special track
> upgrading ones??
> Sort of right!  One result of the limited carriage supply is that there are
> more Quay - Illawarra trains to juggle the scarce fleet.  One result of the
> limited junction arrangements is that most of these run via the City Inner!
>
> On weekdays from Circular Quay
> City Outer
> 11. 4 pm FRIDAYS ONLY Cronulla
> 11.45 pm Hurstville (thence empty MCS)
> 12. 0 am Hurstville (thence empty MCS)
> 12:30 am Mortdale CS
> City Inner
> 6.37 am Hurstville (thence empty MCS)
> 7.29 am Hurstville (to form the much-discussed 8. 2 am back)
> 9.22 am Hurstville (thence empty MCS)
> 10. 2 am Hurstville (thence empty MCS)
> 11.22 am Hurstville (thence empty MCS)
> 11. 0 pm Hurstville (thence empty MCS)
> 12:15 am Hurstville (thence empty MCS)
>
> Thanks for the link to the new timetables!
>
> Rgds
>
>