Re: NSW - Is it time for one timetable?

[Hubert Lam <hubert@imap4.com>]

According to an official CityRail document "October 1996 Timetable
Review" (dated late 1995), it is not feasible to have one train every
15 min on the Richmond line, primarily due to the large number of level
crossings (hmm...what about the Liverpool via Granville section???) but
also the huge amount of time it takes to send trains up there, in
addition to the single-tracked sections, and minimum 7-min turn around
time for suburban runs.



In article <gIzB5.14341$O7.195491@ozemail.com.au>,
  "Paul Jones" <jonesclan@free.net.au> wrote:
> > 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...)
>
> --
> ----------
> 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?
> > |
> >
> >
>
>


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