Re: [NSW] quality of trains on airport line

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

There are only 3 tabled G sets from sector 3 in use on weekends, so even
just for Airport to Ashfield via Circle, the fleet should be plenty!

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"Chris Downs" <cvdowns@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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| Hubert Lam <hubert@imap4.com> wrote in message
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| > Today's Herald had an article on the quality of trains/train services on
| the
| > Airport line.
| >
| > In one paragraph, State Rail says they won't compromise the "quality
train
| > services" on the West and North Shore line to appease the Airport line.
| >
| > Seeing that almost all off-peak trains on weekdays that run on the Main
| > North are air conditioned (with the exception of some), and most of
these
| > are T or G sets, why not divert these into the City Circle and run them
to
| > Wolli Creek than have shitty R sets from Ashfield going to Wolli Creek?
| >
| > And the story with the 4GT...will the delivery of 80 cars plus the
| scrapping
| > of Tullochs really make a difference?? (remember there is a net gain of
| only
| > 30 cars by scrapping the Tullochs)
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| 4 car Tangaras were running Airport line services yesterday (Sat).  My
| impression was that did make a significant improvement on grotty R sets
(and
| much quieter too).  East Hills/Macarthur services that I saw were all 8
car
| S or T sets (presumably because of track work north of Glenfield).
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| On weekends I can see no reason why Gosford G sets can't be brought down
for
| AL services (assuming there's enough cars).  Then there's no loss of T
sets
| from other lines and a better service for AL passengers.
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| Chris
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