Re: [NSW] Underutilisation of rollingstock

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

"Hubert Lam
> From inspection of the 2000 Easter Show weekday working timetable (very
> similar to the May 21 working timetable), ISTR many sector 3 G sets that are
> stabled either at Hornsby car sheds, the yard or North Sydney tunnels from
> late morning (say 11am) to mid afternoon (3-4pm).  This is also true to many
> sector 1 T/G and sector 2 S/R sets.
>
> We have heard before that CityRail has the lack of rollingstock to run
> additional services. From what I have seen over the past two weeks, there
> has NOT been a lack of rollingstock (OK fair enough, some lines were
> closed--but other lines had much higher frequencies than usual, e.g. North
> Sydney to Gosford (not even in normal timetable), Central to Olympic Park
> (very very high frequency).
>
> Was all this achieved because there were more drivers and guards during this
> period, cleaning of trains could be done at stations (rather than being
> stabled/at yards), or is there something more sneaky to it?

Nothing sneaky. Apart from what you've mentioned, they brought forward all their maintenance and postponed other works to allow the
extra trains to run. During normal off-peak times, there's no need to run many trains as those that do run are usually empty or near
so.