Re: Connex loses another customer

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Chris Gordon <cmgord@VICSIG.alphalink.com.au> wrote in message
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> > Quite right too.
>
> No it isn't.
>
> > Camberwell is an important district centre and all trains should stop
> > there.
>
> No.
>
> > We can argue over whether it should stop at glenferrie.
>
> Forgot that one too.
>
> > Vaughan
> >
> > > My morning train that goes express from Box Hill to Richmond has been
> > > replaced with one that goes from Box Hill -> Camberwell ->
> > Glenferrie ->
> > > Richmond .. bleh.
>
> People from Lilydale and Belgrave (and me from Ringwood) want a faster
> trip to the City, this means more express, stopping at Camberwell adds
> more time, and Glenferrie too (far too many trains stop there now),
> after all those stations you might as well stop at them all.
>
> What is the point of a full train stopping at Camberwell in the morning
> when the next one which is not so full is 3 minutes away and the
> Alamein/Blackburn trains are there too? (with spare seats).
>
> The timetables in Melbourne need a total re-draft, throw out the crap
> they have now run train in peak hour so they stop at about 5-10 stations
> and then express to the city.  ie:
> Lilydale all stations to Ringwood express Box Hill then Richmond.
> Belgrave all stations to Ringwood express Box Hill then Richmond.
> Upper Gully/Mooroolbark/Ringwood all stations to Box Hill then
> Camberwell and Richmond (maybe some about 15 minutes before lectures due
> to start at Swinburn stop at Glenferrie, but not all).
> Box Hill trains (stuff this Blackburn crap, the double between Box Hill
> and Blackburn is needed for all the other trains) stop all stations to
> Camberwell then Glenferrie and Richmond.
> Alamein trains stop all stations (because loading on the Alamein line is
> low).
>
> A mix of loop and direct trains (so a up from Lilydale might go direct
> and a up from Alamein might go via the loop).
>
> Then during the day (ie off peak) run Blackburn trains stopping all
> stations Blackburn - Camberwell then express Glenferrie - Richmond.
> Alamein trains through running to Flinders Street, Lilydale/Belgrave
> trains express Box Hill - Camberwell - Richmond, that time of day you do
> stop at Camberwell because the business is not getting people to the
> city super fast.
>
>
> Anyway, back to catching the train each day and other people telling me
> what I want.
>
>
>
> --
>
> C.

Very good recommendations but I think they would need an extra track from
Ringwood to Box Hill to cater for expresses from Lilydale and Belgrave.  As
you say, Lilydale and Belgrave passengers really should run express from
Ringwood to Box Hill.

Peter.