Re: NSW - Is it time for one timetable?

["Paul Jones" <jonesclan@free.net.au>]

> It will be impossible for the entire Richmond line to have a minimum
service
> frequency of 15 min due to the single track sections.

Not any more. It used to be possible, but a bit of a tight squease. Now that
there is a loop at claraden a service every 15 mins is possible. If trains
didn't run late, a service every 10 mins should now be possible. (An
educated guess...)

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Paul Jones


"Hubert Lam" <hubert@imap4.com> wrote in message
news:39d5e6af$0$26529$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au...
> It will be impossible for the entire Richmond line to have a minimum
service
> frequency of 15 min due to the single track sections.
>
> <sarcasm> The Bankstown line has a very uniform 15 min frequency and is a
> model that all other lines should follow </sarcasm>
>
> "ROBERT SCHROEDER" <bobschroeder@optushome.com.au> wrote in message
> news:a35btsgi25cjtnis4r090p7n9eci4nhnmu@4ax.com...
> |
> | Are you being serious or is this another Joke posting?
> | Obviously city stations would have very frequent trains if all
> | suburban stations were serviced every fifteen minutes.
> |
> |
> | On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 12:35:23 +1100, David Johnson
> | <trainman@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> |
> | >ROBERT SCHROEDER wrote:
> | >
> | >> Please use your brains! There are a large number of routes going
> | >> through these stations and some fast and some all stations from each
> | >> route.
> | >> As someone else pointed out, on some routes it would be better than
> | >> current peak hour service.
> | >>
> | >
> | >Just clarifying a point you made. :)  I'm sure with creative
timetabling
> a 15
> | >minute service could be achieved to all stations.  You would have to
have
> trains
> | >terminating at Wynyard off the shore, or it would muck it all up
reducing
> the
> | >service to 2 every 15 minutes at Town Hall.  I'm not sure how they
would
> run the
> | >ESR - if you had one train every 15 minutes going around the Silly
> Circus,
> | >trains on the ESR would double the number of trains at Town Hall to one
> every
> | >7.5 minutes.  That could wreck everything!  They could always run non
> stop from
> | >Sydenham to Martin Place.  On the Carlingford line, they could still
have
> one
> | >train every 15 minutes, but it would have to be going a different
> direction each
> | >time.  Then again, that takes up Clyde's quota for the quarter hour, so
> no other
> | >trains could stop there!
> | >
> | >>
> | >>
> | >>
> | >> >ROBERT SCHROEDER wrote:
> | >> Sydney should copy and provide a 15 minute off peak service to all
> | >> >> stations on the network
> | >
> | >> On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 03:00:41 +1100, David Johnson
> | >> <trainman@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> | >> >So Central and Town Hall get one train every 15 minutes?
> |
>
>