Re: NSW - First Stop Penrith in OGTT?

["Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>]

"David Johnson" <trainman@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
> Tezza wrote:
> > "Erk" <erk@erkV69.au.com> wrote in message
> > > I just flicked through the suburban timetable for the Olympics and
noticed
> > a service that leaves Central at 1022 (from intercity platforms) and it
is
> > > shown as first stop Penrith then Emu Plains.
> >
> > Yet it's only 5 minutes quicker than the 10.29 from Central, which has
14
> > more stops!
>
> That's because it is tabled 2 minutes behind the SOP out of Sydney, then
when
> the SOP turns off at Flemo, The BOP jumps in front at Lidcombe.  It runs 2
> minutes behind the BOP to Westmead before crossing to the slow tracks to
run
> behind a Richmond train.

Waste of time making it an express - if you can call it that.