Re: [NSW] Olympic Timetable, Day 1 report (Northern Line, Olympic Park Metro) plus some sightings

["Chris Downs" <cvdowns@ozemail.com.au>]

The 0620 Katoomba - Central service was standing room only from Glenbrook
(with numerous standees), very well loaded on departure from Emu Plains and
chockas on departure from Penrith.  A few women who boarded at Glenbrook and
Emu Plains had a real good whinge about having to stand and extra stops.

The 7 or so other Mountains trains I saw this afternoon/evening were all
close to time.

A little extra running time and service segregation/isolation has worked
wonders for day 1 of an untried timetable.  Only 1 day down but looks
promising.

Chris

Hubert Lam <hubert@imap4.com> wrote in message
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> * On the northern line today at around 8.45am, there was no huge increase
in
> patronage
>
> * almost all trains arriving at Central from the west and north (platform
> 16) and from the South and Bankstown (platform 17) were arriving 3 min
early
> from 9.15 to 10am (undoubtly due to the very lenient timing)
>
> * passengers were quite "well behaved", ie. not much running towards
closing
> doors
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> * in the afternoon, trains departing Central also ran early or on-time.
> Northern line trains from 4pm began to get a little packed in the middle
> carriages.
>
> * Good to see the entire fleet of Olympic Park Metro (from Central to
> Olympic Park) trains being T sets, mostly from sector 1 (only a few from
> sector 3).
>
> * Also the half-hourly North Sydney to Gosford via Strathfield was done by
G
> sets. The peak hour ones from 4pm (all stops from Strathfield to Hornsby)
> were mostly T sets rather than G, as most would have ended up at Gosford
at
> around 3pm. Again due to the very generous timing these services ran on
> time.
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> * With rolling stock allocations, much of the S and R sets from Hornsby
have
> changed hands and gone to Flemington instead. One sighting is S69 on black
> plate and also blue plate!!! (hehehe Eric will love this)
>
> * A 4-car L set has also appeared in sector 3 (!!!), but i couldn't catch
> the number. It was attached to a sector 2 S set. Sighted at Central at
> 2.15pm
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