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

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

The two greatest tragedies with the Airport Line weekend timetable are:
1) Half the trains terminate at/start from Central - they should all
traverse the CC; &
2) They don't run to 15 minute headways, rather 19/11 minutes alternating.

Chris

Gnome 412 <gnome412@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> >> * 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.
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> The May 21 Airport / East Hills timetable for weekends is simply the old
> timetable with some extra Airport trains squeezed in.
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> 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.
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> Rgds
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