Re: [NSW] Weekend times for East Hills and Airport lines

["Gnome 412" <gnome412@hotmail.com>]

>> * Why is it that on weekends there are no direct services from
>Macarthur/East Hills through to the
>> Airport, rather though relying on the Turella shuttles?
>Perhaps because it is quicker? Just looking at one, the train departing
>Turrella at 1244 arrives at Central at 1256 - the train that connects with
>it (the 1248 ex Turrella) arrives Central at 1304.
>> * Why do half the Airport shuttles terminate at Central? Not enough time
>to go to Ashfield
>> afterwards?
>Lack of rolling stock?
>It owuld have to be a temporary measure, methinks, until the East Hills
>amplification is completed.


The May 21 Airport / East Hills timetable for weekends is simply the old
timetable with some extra Airport trains squeezed in.

This may be because an operator that doesn't have an Olympics timetable yet
doesn't have time to produce an all-new weekend suburban timetable.  It
might also allow the isolated Airport timetable to be fine-tuned (e.g. to
match the service to the loadings) without recasting the whole vast
timetable.

Rgds