Re: Connex loses another customer

["Alex Pout" <alpout@optusnet.com.au>]

news.foxall.com.au <austaz@foxall.com.au> wrote in message
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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.

Wasn't that on the agenda, putting in a 3rd line out at least to Ringwood
for the purpose of running more express trains?? That's what I remember
hearing just before I left Melbourne....